AOC blames US immigration crisis on climate change

Published September 16, 2019 8:04pm ET



Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez claimed that climate change was behind the illegal immigration crisis on the southern border, saying the country needed to consider “climate refugees in our immigration policies.”

“Remember when we said climate change would cause mass migration, & the right called us crazy?” the New York Democrat said Monday on Twitter. “Well, it’s happening. And walling ourselves off from the world isn’t a plan for our future.”

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