Kamala Harris has embarked on her first foreign trip as vice president, though things got off to a bumpy start. Her plane out of Joint Base Andrews had to turn back after 30 minutes because of an unspecified "technical issue" on Sunday, reports the AP. Harris, though, boarded a second plane and has since landed in Guatemala City. Now comes the hard part of trying to put a dent in the number of migrants heading north to the US—and, in the bigger picture, navigating an especially complicated political terrain. Coverage:
- The trip: Harris visits Guatemala on Monday and Mexico on Tuesday, all part of her mandate as VP to ease the immigration crisis. She'll be focusing on what officials have called "root issues" behind the surge, including corruption. The latter "really does sap the the wealth of any country, and in Central America is at a scale where it is a large percentage of GDP across the region,” says special envoy Ricardo Zuniga.