CBS Blames Climate Change for Border Crisis, Not Biden
Via Newsbusters.
EXCERPT:
MASON: “This week we’ve also been showing you the roots of the border crisis, why people make the dangerous journey to the U.S. in the first place. Manuel Bojorquez reports from Guatemala on how climate change is forcing many into a difficult choice.”
[Clip starts]
BOJORQUEZ: “It’s written in the hillsides as far as Ruben Che is concerned. The crops that have supported generations of his family in the Guatemalan highlands are gone. They’ve never seen it like this before. So this would be full of leaves [speaking Spanish] —“
CHE: “[speaking Spanish]”
BOJORQUEZ: “—and instead it’s dry. And this is the coffee bean. No good. The coffee and cardamom stood no chance. This valley turned into a lake after back-to-back hurricanes slashed the region last year, with intensity and rainfall believed to be magnified by climate change. Like many here, lured by billboards advertising a farmer’s dream, he took out a loan to get the operation running again, but nothing’s grown.”
CHE: “[speaking Spanish]”
BOJORQUEZ: “So you have a debt, you have no way of repaying it, because your crops are ruined. The sign drawing his attention now is a smuggler’s, advertising a trip to the U.S.”
