AOC blames US immigration crisis on climate change
by John Gage
Washington Examiner
September 16, 2019
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez claimed that climate change was behind the illegal immigration crisis on the southern border, saying the country needed to consider "climate refugees in our immigration policies."
"Remember when we said climate change would cause mass migration, & the right called us crazy?" the New York Democrat said Monday on Twitter. "Well, it’s happening. And walling ourselves off from the world isn’t a plan for our future."
The 29-year-old congresswoman attached an article to her tweet from Mic that claimed 7 million people were forced from their homes because of extreme weather.
Ocasio-Cortez made a similar claim in April linking illegal immigration to climate change.
"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," she said.
Ocasio-Cortez has been outspoken on both climate change and illegal immigration, proposing the Green New Deal in February and protesting against President Trump's hard-line positions on illegal immigration.
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