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Opinion | Why Climate Justice Must Transcend Borders
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The elite's 'solution' to the climate crisis is to turn the displaced into exploitable migrant labor. We need a truly internationalist alternative

encapsulates the hostility to climate refugees: “Borders will be strengthened around the country to hold back unwanted starving immigrants from the Caribbean islands , Mexico, and South America.” The US has now launched Operation Vigilant Sentry off the Florida coast and created Homeland Security Task Force Southeast to enforce marine interdiction and deportation in the aftermath of disasters in the Caribbean.

Beginning in April 2022, the new Pacific Australia Labor Mobility scheme will make it easier for Australian businesses to temporarily insource low-wage workers from small Pacific island countries including Nauru, Papua New Guinea, Kiribati, Samoa, Tonga, and Tuvalu. Not coincidentally, many of these countries’ ecologies and economies have already beenIt is not an anomaly that Australia is turning displaced climate refugees into a funnel of temporary labor migration.

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