President Joe Biden’s decision to explore the root causes of forced migration from Central America to the United States is a step in the right direction. But it will lead only to long-term solutions. In fact, political preferences aside, both Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris have shown a type of leadership that is rarely found in American politics: governing with a long-term vision.

As Harris will soon find out, one of the most complex geopolitical problems in the 21st century involves dissimilar root causes forcing Central American migrant children to seek protection abroad: drug trafficking, domestic violence, cultural forms of discrimination, gang violence, state violence and corruption, institutional inequalities, and climate change.