Democratic New York Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez said climate change was a “major factor” behind the wave of migrants making their way to the U.S. southern border.
“The far-right loves to drum up fear [and] resistance to immigrants,” Ocasio-Cortez tweeted Tuesday. “But have you ever noticed they never talk about what‘s causing people to flee their homes in the first place?”
“Perhaps that’s [because] they’d be forced to confront 1 major factor fueling global migration: Climate change,” Ocasio-Cortez tweeted.
The far-right loves to drum up fear & resistance to immigrants.
But have you ever noticed they never talk about what‘s causing people to flee their homes in the first place?
Perhaps that’s bc they’d be forced to confront 1 major factor fueling global migration:
Climate change. https://t.co/zyJzTjEgHt
— Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (@AOC) April 9, 2019
Ocasio-Cortez’s tweet links to a video by The Leap, a group founded by author and activist Naomi Klein. The Leap’s video discusses “why the climate movement must fight for migrant justice to win the world we want.”
It’s part of a growing effort to link global warming to a host of seemingly unrelated issues, like immigration, national security, and health care.
Former Vice President Al Gore repeatedly tried to link man-made warming to the current wave of migration from Central America to the U.S.
Gore told CNN’s Christiane Amanpour in January the so-called “dry corridor,” which includes El Salvador, Guatemala, and Honduras, “is the most vulnerable region in the world to global warming.”
“And they’ve gone without a harvest this year. Some have gone without a harvest for two years,” Gore said. “That is one of the principal causes for them making that long journey.”
A number of news outlets have made similar claims, linking global warming to migrant caravans that dominated headlines during fall 2018. At the time, thousands of Central American migrants made their way to the U.S. southern border to claim asylum and gain entry.
Droughts hit Central America in recent years, driven by the incredibly strong El Nino in 2015. El Nino is a regularly occurring natural phenomenon, not the product of human emissions.
What does the science say about droughts and global warming? Climate models generally project some regions will see more frequent droughts by the end of the century, but tying today’s droughts to human emissions is problematic.
Read more at Daily Caller
Jajajajajajajajaj! Perhaps, shortly, due to climate change, there will be an opposite migration: from north to south. When reality is absurdly interpreted, in the future it is interpreted worse.
All these incessant AO-C posts read like this: GUESS WHAT THE VILLAGE IDIOT JUST SAID!
They’re entertainment.
AOC is nuts just plain nuts just like most all liberal democrats like someone who belongs in a padded cell and a straight jacket ranting on about the climate change that’s only happening in their heads and of doctored computer charts
In truth it is people like Ocasio-Cortez who having taken power in countries of Central and South America broke their economies and the law-and-order fabric of those societies, impoverishing and terrorizing everybody, thus fueling the migration crisis. In other words, people migrate to be further away from the likes of Ocasio-Cortez.
You are spot on with your assessment of Ocasio-Cortez.
Gus, good eye.
Just like back in the 1990’s Save the Rain Forests was a big time scam all this Lungs of the Earth of being wiped out at the size of Ten City Blocks a Minute nothing but a scam and many fell Hook,Line and Sinker for this scam
Gullible people will always find something to “save” “save the rain forest”, “save the whales”, “Save the Pandas” and now it’s “Save the Planet” if there isn’t something to save they would have nothing to do and there would be no one to give their money to.”
The previous comment by Gus made me think about the heavy – oil engineers who were kicked out of socialist Venezuela and found work in Alberta.
What happened next? The oil boom brought an influx of eastern labourers, and their politics. Alberta got sideswiped by organized labour. NDP!
Just to pile on, Canadian idiots then elected environmental shiny pony Trudeau. He appoints Climate Barbie. What a cluster!
I feel bad for those Venezuelan engineers. Wasn’t me.