[newyorker.com] ..........................................................................................................

"Protesting Immigration Policy, and Why I Decided to Get Arrested
by Bill McKibben" ......................................................................................................................................

"It’s become very clear that a rapidly heating planet is already driving many people to move. In Central America, for instance, recent reporting has made it clear that drought and heat have made it hard to grow food in the highlands of Honduras and Guatemala, starting many farmers on the journey that eventually takes them to the U.S. border. These people did not pour into the atmosphere the carbon that raised the temperature, causing their woe. (That was us.) And, as this week’s report from the United Nations’ Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (I.P.C.C.) makes clear, there will be infinitely more of them as the century grinds hotly on. The U.N. estimates that we can expect somewhere between two hundred million and a billion climate refugees on the move around the world." ..................................................................

I personally was shocked to hear an anti-immigrant rant that immigrants from Central America come only because they want our money. What anti-immigrant vilifications have you heard?