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No Country for All Them

DONALD TRUMP THINKS THERE’S AN IMMIGRATION CRISIS AT the U.S.-Mexico border. He has no idea what’s coming.

Thousands of Central American migrants arrive at the border each month, fleeing both grinding poverty and unchecked gang violence. Increasingly, they’re also escaping a threat they might never mention to immigration agents: climate change.

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