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An incredible reporting on the root cause of rural area Central America's exodus 👇
Although "climate refugees' sounds catchy and some twitterari immigration experts wannabes appear to embrace it as a way to churn retweets, there is no wiggle room in the US definition of the term of art 'refugee' to entitle them to asylum. None!
Under the INA, an act passed by Congress, a “refugee” is a person who is unable or unwilling to return to his or her home country bc of a “well-founded fear of persecution” due to race, membership in a particular social group, political opinion, religion, or national origin.
