How the Climate Crisis Is Pushing Central Americans Out of Their Homes Toward the U.S.
by mail@democracynow.org (Democracy Now!) from Democracy Now! on (#4JWFA)
As the U.S. continues to crack down on migrants seeking asylum at the U.S.-Mexico border, we look at one of the underreported driving factors leading people to flee their home countries: the climate crisis. John Carlos Frey, author of "Sand and Blood: America's Stealth War on the Mexico Border," spent time with Central American climate refugees traveling in a caravan toward the United States. He says, "If this drought continues, we're looking at all-out famine from Central America. "That's one of the major reasons why they're coming. " The government doesn't even acknowledge the fact that there is a climate crisis in Central America."