Border Control

"Storming the Wall" by Todd Miller is a very interesting and important book to read. If I was not mad about the current situation with climate change reading this part cleared everything up. Throughout chapter 5 he writes about Tohono O’odham people and their troubles with the border patrol. He specifically describes this chilling experience through the character named Garcia, as he travel with two young adults through the border. It is horrible to read about the unfair treatment that most receive when they have already gone through so much.  A very huge part of what Miller discusses is the border patrol and what they were intended for and how unfair they can be. Most check points are set up after an environmental crisis that results in a ton of people moving to a new area. In this time, they are expected to go through check points to see if they are allowed into a state. During this patrol can pick out anyone based on their own intuition if someone looks like a criminal or a terrorist they can be taken off path and searched. This upset me a lot, everyone knows the old saying you cannot judge a book by its cover. If this is the case then how can border patrol?

This is what brought me to do some more research, with such strict border patrol I wanted to see how many others were at risk for being affected by border control if Climate change continues. I wanted to know more and learn about future events that could possible happen. That is what brought me into looking into the future of border control if climate change is going to continue at the rate it is going. An article called "  Climate change will be the border control of the future  " by Reece Jones describes what the future will look like for many people if their homes are also going to be destroyed. An unsettling fact is that "Estimates vary, but the consensus Is that there will be at least 200 million people displaced by climate change by 2050" (Jones, 2017). That is so scary to think about that many will be displaced and because of strict border control guidelines will most unlikely be able to enter the U.S. 

Climate change is not going to stop at any time soon and the issues are getting bigger. The more and more people wait to address the fact that Climate Change is indeed real the more danger everyone is going to be in. The biggest part of helping these refugees who have already lost so much is to allow them into countries without the fear of being mistreated and abused by our own security. If we as a nation are going to move forward we need to start working together with others and changing how we live.