Climate change likely to trigger more illegal immigration, report says
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Illegal immigration, ethnic violence, humanitarian crises and national security issues will worsen during the next two decades because of global warming, according to U.S. intelligence agencies.
‘Global warming is likely to have a series of destabilizing effects around the world, causing humanitarian crises as well as surges in ethnic violence and illegal immigration, according to an assessment released Wednesday by U.S. intelligence agencies’, writes The Times’ Greg Miller.
But Rep. Peter Hoekstra (R-Mich.), the ranking Republican on the House Intelligence Committee, called the report ‘a pathetic use of intelligence resources’.
-- Deborah Bonello in Mexico City