Dispossessed, Again: Climate Change Hits Native Americans Especially Hard
Many Native people were forced into the most undesirable areas of America, first by white settlers, then by the government. Now, parts of that marginal land are becoming uninhabitable.
Pierre Augare, a member of the Quinault Nation in Taholah, Wash., a community on the Olympic Peninsula that has been planning a retreat from the ocean for almost a decade.Credit.Josué Rivas for The New York Times
June 27, 2021, 5:00 a.m. ET
In Chefornak, a Yu’pik village near the western coast of Alaska, the water is getting closer.
The thick ground, once frozen solid, is thawing. The village preschool, its blue paint peeling, sits precariously on wooden stilts in spongy marsh between a river and a creek. Storms are growing stronger. At high tide these days, water rises under the building, sometimes keeping out the children, ages 3 to 5. The shifting ground has warped the floor, making it hard to close the doors. Mold gro
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A new report from Amnesty International has found that the Biden administration has rapidly expelled thousands of unaccompanied Mexican migrant children at the U.S.-Mexico border without adequately conducting screenings to determine whether they might qualify for protection in the U.S.
The report, published Friday, accuses the Biden administration of circumventing an anti-trafficking law to rapidly expel unaccompanied minors back to Mexico, while at the same time allowing unaccompanied minors from Central America and other countries to seek refuge in the U.S.
The report comes on the heels of Vice President Kamala Harris’s trip this week