US border crisis is born of failed climate and migration policies

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

48% : Since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic in March 2020, the US has been using an arcane public health law known as Title 42 - which gives the government the right to deny asylum and remove from the US people who have recently been in a country where a communicable disease was present - to expel migrants and stop processing asylum applications.
47% : Instead, it allowed US Customs and Border Protection agents to effectively ban all migrants from entering the US through its southern border.
43% : Today, the situation in the migrant encampment in Reynosa, housing thousands of migrants hoping to claim asylum in the US, is no different.
41% : Just last week, the US refugee agency, UNHCR, called on the US to end its COVID-19 border restrictions that keep Central American refugees from seeking asylum in the country, citing deepening crises of violence, poverty and climate change in the region.
41% : In light of all this, many expected the Biden administration to take immediate action and implement not only migration policies that prioritise human life over border security, but also environmental policies that would not only help save humanity's future but also prevent further forced displacement.
39% : Over the years, I've worked in some of the world's largest, toughest and most desolate refugee camps, where hundreds of thousands of people are forced to live in dismal conditions without any humanitarian protections as they wait to claim asylum in neighbouring countries.

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