President Joe Biden’s administration may provide immigration rights and citizenship to many foreign “climate migrants” who claim they are being displaced by climate change, the Associated Press (AP) reported this week.
On Tuesday, AP noted:
No nation offers asylum or other legal protections to people displaced specifically because of climate change. President Joe Biden’s administration is studying the idea, and climate migration is expected to be discussed at his first climate summit, held virtually Thursday and Friday.
President Biden issued an executive order on February 4 ordering national security adviser Jake Sullivan to produce a report by August 3 on “Planning for the Impact of Climate Change on Migration,” including options for protecting and resettling climate change-displaced persons.
On Thursday, Refugees International announced the formation of an expert task force on climate change and migration in response to the same executive order.
Referring to the “climate crisis” early this week, Secretary of State Antony Blinken asserted that climate changes are fueling the surge of migrants from Guatemala, El Salvador, and Honduras that is currently overwhelming resources and immigration authorities at America’s border with Mexico.
Nevertheless, none of the 40 world leaders that Biden invited to the climate summit are from the Northern Triangle, a region encompassing Guatemala, El Salvador, and Honduras.
Still, Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) proposed a reforestation deal during the climate event Thursday (Earth Day) to curb migration to the U.S. in exchange for work visas and eventually citizenship for Mexicans and Central Americans.
Specifically, AMLO proposed that the U.S. offer temporary work visas and eventually citizenship to those who take part in a massive tree-planting program the president wants to expand from Mexico to Central America.
López Obrador said the Biden Administration “could finance” the job-creating program’s extension to the Northern Triangle, a significant source of the influx of migrants at the U.S.-Mexico border.
“I add a complimentary proposal, with all due respect, the U.S. government could offer those who participate in this program that after sowing their lands for three consecutive years, they would have the possibility to obtain a temporary work visa,” López Obrador said.
“And after another three or four years, they could obtain residency in the United States or dual nationality,” he added.
On Thursday, Senator Edward Markey (D-MA) and Rep. Nydia Velázquez (D-NY) reintroduced a bill to address the lack of protections for migrants who do not fit the definition of “refugees” under U.S. and international law.
AP acknowledged on Tuesday:
The idea still faces monumental challenges, including how to define a climate refugee when natural disasters, drought and violence are often intertwined in regions people are fleeing, such as Central America. If the U.S. defined a climate refugee, it could mark a major shift in global refugee policy.
Referring to his bill, which failed to pass in 2019, Markey’s office noted on Thursday:
[The legislation] would establish a national strategy to address global climate-driven displacement and provide the support needed to implement durable solutions for climate-displaced persons.
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Although the effects of climate change often aggravate societal tensions that lead to persecution, many climate-displaced persons do not meet the US definition of refugee, and therefore, they cannot access resettlement opportunities in the United States.
Specifically, the legislation would create a U.S. resettlement pathway for people displaced by climate change,” among other things.
“We have a greater chance now than ever before to get this done,” Markey told AP, citing the president’s climate diplomacy and awareness of the problem.
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How about if Biden the Worst gave us all a tax Break instead
Want to bet they all claim to be “climate migrants”?
There are no climate refugees. The only bases for this from South America could be crop failure. Yet the greening of the earth driven by high levels of carbon dioxide is causing higher crop yields. This reminds me of a few years ago when a man from the island nation of Maldives was seeking status as a climate refugee because of rising sea levels. A picture of his house showed that it was high and dry. Like other issues, climate change is being used as an excuse for what people like Biden want to do anyway.
Migration of this nature is always a creation of distress. If the migrants should be allowed to enter and be given citizenship on that basis is a kind hearted and generous gesture. But if this kindness is made contingent on the requirement that the cause of the distress must be climate change then it is not kindness but climate activism where the migrants are being used to sell a climate agenda that doesn’t otherwise doesn’t sell.
We need a Break form the Stupidity of the Liberal Democrats