It's worth mentioning how El Nino of 2015 made the dry corridor even dryer and there's a large drought that has impacted crops and food supply. This needs to be part of the conversation. Climate change hurts crops, and people migrate.https://www.newyorker.com/news/dispatch/how-climate-change-is-fuelling-the-us-border-crisis …
President Trump has signaled time and again that he is more interested in playing to his base than reasonable immigration reform. I elaborated today on @FoxNews.pic.twitter.com/u6VT6kBTsp
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"While ... Trump claims that caravans of migrants heading from Central America to the US are an “invasion” of “gang members..." his own commissioner of the US Customs and Border Protection says that crop failure is one of the main drivers of migration."https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.pri.org/stories/2019-02-06/climate-change-overlooked-driver-central-american-migration%3famp …
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