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Climate Change Sparked the Border Migration Crisis

FLOOD AND FAMINE

The Northern Triangle’s agricultural crisis has been more than a decade in the making.

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One factor causing migrants to risk everything—even potentially losing their children—to travel through the heat of summer in the dangerous desert and towards the barbed wire fences and tent cities springing up just south of the United States border: climate change.

Many of the migrants being detained here now hail from...

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