Really? Climate refugees? Normally, it takes fleeing regimes that impose economic hardship, religious turmoil or political unrest to qualify a foreigner for refugee status in the United States. Incidentally, the policy has proven in the past to be a fairly tough standard to meet.
Now, global obsession with the weather has lead to the U.S. to consider adding a new breed of expatriates: climate refugees. And, of course, recognizing the allegedly poor or worsening conditions surrounding these victims of policy-making in their home countries – involving carbon emissions and sea-level rise – many in the U.S. think the new test is okay.
Previously, “refugee” was defined under the United States Refugee Admissions Program (USRAP) as a person outside the country of his or her nationality, “who is unable or unwilling to return to that country because of persecution or a well-founded fear of persecution based on his or her race, religion, nationality, membership in a particular social group, or political opinion.”
Under what Biden is now contemplating, however, the definition could include anyone. The amendment goes something like this: the (donor) government is suspect “if there are various alterations in the natural environment related to several impacts of climate change, including 1) sea-level rise; 2) extreme weather events; 3) and drought and water scarcity.”
Think about it: anybody, if they aren’t happy with the foreign regime they are being governed by, could easily declare that politics at home aren’t friendly enough to climate change. Remembering that the Paris Agreement (United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change) – the global climate-change doctrine and policy directive – is non-binding, a governing body can do anything.
Presumably to make room for the newcomers, President Biden recently raised the country’s so-called refugee ceiling for 2021 by some 15,000 to well over 62,000. (Yet, some say the Biden increase does not account for the possibility of “unforeseen” climate-change refugees; making their immigration unlimited.)
In another sign that the President is serious about opening the refugee flood gates, Biden has ordered his national security adviser, Jake Sullivan, to see how to identify and resettle people displaced directly or indirectly by climate change. A report is due in August.
If the new policy takes effect, it will be interesting to see how it affects the country’s immigration policy. Regardless of where you stand on immigration, you have to see what Biden is up to. The climate-change gambit of his is still another way of getting more foreigners into the U.S. Legally. And, don’t be fooled: Biden’s permissive immigration policy recognizes that Hispanics register to vote Democrat by an estimated four-to-one margin.
It’s all a big scam – and ever so transparent. Since, liberals can no longer win on the issues – any issue – they’re set on expanding the base of voters who will dependably support Democrats.
What’s more, as climate change has been their ticket to freedom in the U.S., these new entrants will likely resolve to heartily support the new policy. Along the way Party leaders will be whipping up emotions – like Rep. Ocasio-Cortez’s declaration that the world is coming to an end (10 years from now) – so voters can well justify the position they’ve taken.
Great Britain’s Sir John Dalberg-Acton was right when he said “Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely. Great men are almost always bad men . . .” So it is with today’s American Democrat Party.
And, soon enough the most frequent answer on the southern border of the United States to the question asked of would-be immigrants, “Why are you here?” may become “climate change.” That ought to do it.
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