Threat Multiplier: The U.S. Border and the Invisible Climate War

A vivid look at U.S. policy toward climate refugees through one family’s displacement after Hurricane Otis.

The aftermath of Hurricane Otis in Acapulco, Guerrero, Mexico, on November 13, 2023. (Photo credit: Alejandro Cegarra/Bloomberg via Getty Images)

The first thing Cecilia told me was that there was no good cell signal in her community of San Isidro, near Acapulco. On October 24, she told me, they didn’t have the proper information about the approaching s…