In her vague but official role as a White House adviser, Ivanka Trump visited a camp for Venezuela migrants in Colombia this week. Along with State Department officials on an official visit to South America, she toured a women-run strawberry farm before visiting a migrant shelter run by Red Cross near Cúcuta, a city near the border that's become a destination for Venezuelans fleeing economic turmoil. There she "bonded with a young boy in a wheelchair" while smiling "brightly," according to the Daily Mail.

South America has been experiencing its own migration crisis for years now. According to the U.N., as many as 4 million people have fled Venezuela, which has been racked by economic depression and political chaos. Donald Trump has spent his political career maligning such refugees who come to the U.S., and Ivanka's brother Donald Trump Jr. has compared Syrian refugees to secretly poisoned candy. Since taking office, Trump has made it official policy to detain anyone legally applying for asylum, and has drastically slowed the asylum process as part of a campaign to deter people from applying at all. As a result, there are many migrant camps Ivanka could have visited in the U.S., and shelters in northern Mexico are overflowing with Central American migrants who are waiting for U.S. immigration courts to hear their asylum claims. Perhaps the lack of soap and space makes the U.S. detention camps less ideal photo ops for the first daughter.

In the camps that the Trump administration has set up across the U.S.-Mexico border, at least six children have died, including three of flu-related health problems. Despite this, the administration will not be administering flu vaccines to the men, women, and children kept in cells and chainlink pens so overcrowded that there are reports of people standing on top of toilets just to have room to breathe. The Centers for Disease Control announced this week that there have also been outbreaks of mumps in some detention centers. Trump's Justice Department has argued in court that its obligation to keep migrants in "safe and sanitary" conditions does not require it to supply children with soap, toothpaste, or blankets. Some women reported that when the water fountains in their cells stopped working, guards told them to drink toilet water instead.

The Trump administration seems to view migrants from Central America and migrants from Venezuela very differently: The former are a dangerous threat to national security, while the latter are sympathetic figures, largely because Venezuelan president Nicolás Maduro has become something of a proxy for failed socialism for conservatives. After Ivanka's visit, the administration announced it would contribute another $120 million to relief programs for Venezuelan migrants in South America, and she tweeted, "We stand with the people of Venezuela in their struggle to restore democracy, freedom and rule of law. It was deeply moving to meet female leaders of the Guaidó coalition as well as some of the women impacted most by the brutal Maduro dictatorship in Cucuta today."

Earlier this year, the Trump administration tried to pressure Maduro to step down. When that didn't happen, Trump and his aides quickly supported a coup attempt by opposition leader Juan Guaidó, which quickly lost steam when neither the Venezuelan people nor the military rushed to side with Guaidó. After a few weeks, Trump lost interest in forcing a regime change in the country, claiming that he was misled about how easy it would be and that his national security adviser, John Bolton, just wanted to get him "into a war," according to The Washington Post.

Instead, the Trump administration has opted to impose sanctions on Venezuela. The Associated Press reports that these sanctions will likely hamstring international food and medical aid. Typically, cutting aid is not a sound strategy for reducing the number refugees fleeing a country.