Hit the road, Jack
And don’t you come back
No more, no more, no more, no more
Hit the road, Jack
And don’t you come back no more

On Monday, October 9, 1961, Ray Charles’s “Hit the Road Jack” hit number one for two weeks on the Billboard Hot 100. The record won a Grammy award for Best Rhythm and Blues Recording. The song is ranked number 387 on Rolling Stone magazine’s list of “The 500 Greatest Songs of All Time.” Who would have known that 60 years later it would be a theme song for protesters in Guatemala when the VP of the United States visited?

Enter Vice President Kamala Harris.

She was greeted Monday by protesters in Guatemala telling her “Trump won” and “go home” — as the country’s president blamed President Joe Biden for this year’s migrant crisis. According to the New York Post, the rally was visible to Harris’s motorcade as she arrived to meet with Guatemalan President Alejandro Giammattei one day after he blamed the U.S. for luring his constituents north.

“Kamala, Trump won,” read a large sign near the Central American country’s presidential palace.

Another sign that appears to have been hoisted by activists onto a tall billboard along the roadway says, “Kamala Stop Funding Criminals #FueraDeGuatemala.” Images posted to Twitter show other signs, including one that tells Biden’s migration czar: “Kamala, Go Home.”

The Guatemalan president indicated that he and Harris “are not on the same side of the coin” on migration. “We asked the United States government to send more of a clear message to prevent more people from leaving,” Giammattei said.

When Biden took office, “The message changed too: ‘We’re going to reunite families, we’re going to reunite children,’” he said. “The very next day, the coyotes were here organizing groups of children to take them to the United States.”

Former President Donald Trump made curbing illegal immigration and stopping asylum-seeker caravans from Central America major themes of his four-year term. At one point, he cut off foreign aid for regional governments.

Biden also ended construction of Trump’s U.S.-Mexico border wall and urged Congress to pass legislation that would establish a path to citizenship for most illegal immigrants. When did blatant illegal activity become so acceptable in American politics? Republicans said the legislation and Biden policy changes created new “pull” factors for illegal immigration — countering Harris’s emphasis on “root causes” in Central America.

No matter what side of the fence you’re on concerning illegal immigration, the citizens of Guatemala have spoken. They are not going along to get along. We Patriots should take a page out of their book. Bye, Kamala!