Article 4JWFA How the Climate Crisis Is Pushing Central Americans Out of Their Homes Toward the U.S.

How the Climate Crisis Is Pushing Central Americans Out of Their Homes Toward the U.S.

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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."

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