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Brooke Binkowski

Apr 19 • 7 tweets • 2 min read

https://twitter.com/nicadispatch/status/1516468994374520839

Many of the people coming to the border of the United States to seek refuge are doing so because of climate change-related reasons. They are climate refugees and have been for many years. Many Americans don't know this because so much time and energy has gone into demonizing them

https://twitter.com/nicadispatch/status/1516468994374520839

Now why do you think American politicians and propagandists might be so intent on demonizing climate refugees? Here's a citation on Nicaragua's particular vulnerability, by the way. www1.undp.org/content/dam/ap…

2019 story pbs.org/newshour/world…

This is not to say that any other reason for seeking refuge is somehow less valid. I just think it's important that Americans in particular understand just how much they're being lied to, and about what

That's why I've been going on and on about the #TantonNetwork, which generates and disseminates white supremacist anti-immigrant and pro-border wall disinformation and propaganda and circulates it to elected officials and media influencers so they can turn their vision to policy

To clarify, this thread is intended to critique the U.S. response to migration and immigration and I'm skipping over a lot of pertinent detail around what's directly propelling people out of Nicaragua. Story from 2020 theguardian.com/global-develop…

https://twitter.com/nicadispatch/status/1516547695640551427

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