Climate Change and the Reality Behind False Claims about ‘Criminal Migrants’

In this interview reprinted with permission from Yale Climate Connections, The Border Chronicle's Todd Miller talks about the role climate change plays in migration to the U.S.-Mexico border.

This interview originally appeared at Yale Climate Connections.

Destruction after 2013 Typhoon Haiyan in Tacloban, Philippines. Photo by Todd Miller

For nearly three decades, Arizona-based writer and journalist Todd Miller has immersed himself in the real-life people and policies defining the U.S.-Mexico border.

When the Department of Homeland Security too…