For years now the results of the environmental crisis has led to the evacuation of cities and people losing their homes. Islands and coasts see their future most compromised, inciting migration to “safer” regions. These instances of dangerous climate change and migration in the Caribbean are captured by extraordinary Haitian photographer Cristina Baussan.
Indeed, from heatwaves to flash floods, the Caribbean islands continue to be among the regions most threatened by climate change. Climate refugees, often not regarded as legal refugees despite their bearing of consequences mostly inflicted by richer countries in which they would seek refuge, need shelter.
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Biden Admin To Turn Away Fleeing Cubans As Soros Group Calls For US To Accept Millions Of Climate Refugees
Cubans fleeing a communist collapse denied entry while southern border remains open
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The Biden administration announced on Tuesday that any refugees fleeing the communist country of Cuba will be turned away from the U.S. if they try to enter.
Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas said during a press conference, “If you take to the sea, you will not come to the United States. The time is never right to attempt migration by sea. To those who risk their lives doing so, this risk is not worth taking. Again, I repeat… Do not risk your life attempting to enter the United States illegally. You will not come to the United States.”
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U.S. Customs and Border Protection officers check the IDs of pedestrians crossing into the United States after reopening the San Ysidro Port of Entry
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The White House (77WABC) – President Biden signed an Executive Order on Monday to expand the United States Refugee Admissions Program for the upcoming fiscal year.
The order will essentially increase refugee admissions in the United States from 15,000 to 62,500 due to what the White House says is “an unforseen emergency refugee sitation in countries around the globe.”
“The number of refugee admissions authorized by this determination under section 207(b) of the Immigration and Nationality Act (8 U.S.C. 1157(b)) sends the important message that the United States remains a safe harbor for some of the most vulnerable people in the world,”
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By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, in accordance with section 207(b) of the Immigration and Nationality Act (the “Act”) (8 U.S.C. 1157(b)), and after appropriate consultation with the Congress, I have determined that subsequent to the signing of Presidential Determination 2021-02 on October 27, 2020 (Presidential Determination on Refugee Admissions for Fiscal Year 2021) (PD 2021-02), an unforeseen emergency refugee situation now exists due to new or increasing political violence, repression, atrocities, or humanitarian crises in countries including Burma, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Ethiopia, Hong Kong and Xinjiang (China), South Sudan, Syria, and Venezuela, as well as changing conditions caused by the coronavirus disease 2019 pandemic. I have further determined that the allocation of admissions among refugees of humanitarian concern set forth in PD 2021-02 pre