Day 94: Kamala To Meet With Mexico To Discuss… Planting Trees?!

Root-causes czar Vice President Kamala Harris, who is clearly addressing the situation at the border only in the most abstract sense, is set to hold a virtual meeting with Mexican president Andrés Manuel López Obrador that Mexico says will focus on a controversial program to pay farmers to plant trees in Mexico.

Mexico is soliciting U.S. funding for an extension of the “Planting Life” initiative, which they say will help prevent workers in Mexico and the Northern Triangle from leaving their home countries—temporarily, at least, as Obrador has also proposed the U.S. grant temporary work visas and eventual citizenship to some participants.

“The program has already planted 700,000 trees in Mexico, where it pays 450,000 Mexican farmers a stipend of about $225 per month to tend the saplings,” the AP reported.