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handmade34

(23,957 posts)
6. "attacking folks in the...caravan"?
Wed Nov 28, 2018, 05:08 AM
Nov 2018

he is correct... case by case, but I don't hear attacks


...while there are complex and compounding reasons for the massive displacements and migrations—especially rising violence (in places like Honduras, for example, after the 2009 military coup) and systemic poverty—there is another driver behind the movement of people seeking refuge in the U.S.: climate change...

According to the United Nations Refugee Agency, “Families and communities have already started to suffer from disasters and the consequences of climate change.” From 2008 to 2015, the Internal Displacement Monitoring Centre reported that at least 22.5 million had been displaced per year because of climate-related-events, the equivalent of 62,000 people per day. Over this time, environmental forces uprooted more people than war. And in 2017 alone, disasters displaced 4.5 million people in the Americas.




https://www.yesmagazine.org/peace-justice/why-the-migrant-caravan-story-is-a-climate-change-story-20181127

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So we're appealing to racists now? wryter2000 Nov 2018 #1
BERNIE SANDERS SAYS TRUMP VOTERS NOT 'DEPLORABLES (2017) TomCADem Nov 2018 #4
Wryter, not racists per se, populists. Sanders said Hortensis Nov 2018 #9
Good way to lose the next election. Doodley Nov 2018 #2
Some immigrants are more valuable than others TexasTowelie Nov 2018 #3
Damn Tom, that interpretation is impressive for how far afield you went from Sanders simply saying JCanete Nov 2018 #5
And of course you have to take it case by case... Dorian Gray Nov 2018 #7
"attacking folks in the...caravan"? handmade34 Nov 2018 #6
every candidate will say this KayF Nov 2018 #8
For christ fucking sake, but then I am not surprised at all. Eliot Rosewater Nov 2018 #10
did you even watch the video? He simply said that you have to take assylum on a case by case basis. JCanete Nov 2018 #11
This reminds of How Republicans Used to hide behind dog whistles TomCADem Nov 2018 #15
Tom...we've literally had the conversation about the Lou Dobbs thing, but you make JCanete Nov 2018 #16
I Understand. Many Trump Supporters Insist Trump Isn't Racist TomCADem Nov 2018 #17
Or don't do better? You dont' just get to call somebody something and make it so. THAT is Trumpian. JCanete Nov 2018 #18
Here Hassin Bin Sober Nov 2018 #12
Wait a minute.....BERNIE SAID THAT Heddi Nov 2018 #13
I see what you did there. Not going to matter, though. Cuthbert Allgood Nov 2018 #14
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