Climate Change Will Force Us to Rethink Migration and Asylum

As climate change accelerates, it will become increasingly untenable to reduce US immigration and asylum policy to a question of border security.

More than 170,000 migrants were apprehended at the US-Mexico border in March, the highest number in a decade. Many of those are unaccompanied minors, and the Biden administration has scrambled to find accommodations for them, sending hundreds of kids to temporary shelters in convention centers and other ad hoc facilities. Conservative politicians and pundits have blamed Biden for “luring children to the border” by relaxing Donald Trump’s harsh...