A National Relief Sanctuary?
The “red alert” of March 19, 2024, as detailed in the last post, continued to preoccupy my state of being as did the American border immigration crisis. And I began to consider our nation’s homeless people and realized again there is no time to waste in the transition from dirty energy to clean energy.
A small fraction of America’s homelessness challenge is a result of undocumented migration stemming from economic disasters around the world. True, not so much now, but can you picture how much greater the world sidewalk tent encampment situation will be if there were hundreds of thousands of thirsty, starved human beings clawing to get into our country, in Canada and Europe, seeking survival because where they were born is unlivable? In my mind this is chill inducing.
This will be reality a few decades from now because we are already too late to curb a warming planet in time to allow the southern continents to be mostly habitable. To a certain extent, the climate relocation calamity has already begun. I believe what we are witnessing at our Southern border is NOTHING compared to what lies ahead. As a nation, we are unprepared to deal with what is currently happening on the other side of the border. So how can we possibly adjust to what’s coming unless our government gets its immigration act together? Even then, a humanitarian crisis will unfold as we watch recordings of destitute people scramble for food, water and shelter on the other side of an unbreachable wall. The hundreds of tons of relief pallets that our nation donated to the Gaza tragedy pales in comparison to what will be required during the next decades across the Rio Grande, the Nogales border and the CA border. No amount of legal immigration vetting can prevent the illegal crossings that can take place on our surrounding boundaries. A mid-April, 2024 filmed boat landing in Carlsbad, CA serves notice as a dozen illegals jumped out and disappeared in the city - and some had cars waiting. Customs and Border Protection of San Diego reports that since 2020, in California alone, maritime smuggling is up by almost 140%. Many of our coastal citizens believe migrants simply get dropped off and dwell in the neighborhoods. The San Diego region has seen 185,000+ encounters so far this YEAR, up 70% from the prior year.
In 2023 alone, 124,000 legal immigrants moved into California: 42% Asian and 38% Central American. This is why the net population was up. At some point in time the United States of America will be overwhelmingly populated by immigrants seeking a sustainable life. Yet, how do we say no to human survival? Our lawmakers will be in a quandary unless they learn how to cooperate with one another way ahead of this pending human debacle. Do we wait 50-60 years like we waited to witness climate change? How can we get around this? My answer: Begin each day visualizing your future while thinking of a positive, healing environmental movement. A united climate action spirit will do wonders for getting us where we must be. The forthcoming wave of human migration spurred by the Southern hemisphere warming requires a precise plan of response. I shudder to think how our current government and corporate leaders will agree on a master plan. To date, U.S. immigration law is extremely complicated and confusing for all involved.
Listening to divisiveness and mean-spirited civic discourse caused by Republicans vs. Democrats is one of the worst observations of living in this great nation. Should that political relationship instead exist on a building basis to make us a greater society for all, politics would be so much more compelling and respected. Instead, the day-to-day personal attacks on congressional character is a nightmare. Sure, Americans will never see eye to eye on pivotal topics - unless one involves the security of our nation as a whole. This behavior is not common for just politicians. Most of us are guilty. Would you believe on an annual basis, an excess of 40,000,000 lawsuits are filed in state trial courts - then add in around 400,000 federal cases.
Talk about a litigious society.
A respectful, cooperative process for naturalized American citizenship is not asking for an unearthly, impossible wonder. The spirit of unity works in many other circles of life - why not at the top tier? Sadly, policymakers aren’t necessarily nice to each other when the moment counts and no instance like a colossal human stampede from the Southern hemisphere to the Northern hemisphere will exemplify this greater. That is unless the difference makers start high fiving each other sooner than later. The condition that pervades the political landscape in a never ending fashion when it’s “all on the line” must change for the decency of all Americans that are already here, before another half a billion come knocking on our border doors. This is another example of why political party gain must be set aside as climate change brings on decision making requirements never before experienced in terms of such a gargantuan scale.
In addition to homelessness, there is an added concern regarding the results of immigration waves into America. The undocumented migrant influx caused crimes to increase; so it’s nerve-wracking to forecast how illegal activity by bad characters will skyrocket once the immigration numbers multiply in the years ahead. The country known as the United States of America will eventually become a climate relief sanctuary because the humanitarian side of most citizens offer a human-kindness attribute. Yet, we have no idea who these people really are and the ability to decipher a good character vs. a bad character border candidate is impossible to accomplish. There is a definite connection between illegal border crossing and rising crime.
In April of 2023, our Customs and Border Protection force met up with over 275,000 illegal aliens which were allowed to remain in our country. In recent years, over 6.2 million illegals tried to enter our borders and about one third were allowed to proceed. Many of these accepted individuals possessed the worst type of criminal intent. To give you an idea of the consequences, in 2021 the Department of Justice released data showing 64% of federal arrests in 2018 involved non-citizens. Since January of 2021, 103,000 migrants were discovered to have had criminal records. Gang member crossings are almost impossible to detect since we don’t know who they are, and therefore they can’t be tracked. The sickening types of crimes are too gut-wrenching to include in this post, but as global warming continues to accelerate, more convicted illegals will find our country a good place to continue their standard of life. Most convicted criminals don’t change their behavior simply by moving to another country, especially if they can’t afford to be there and can’t speak the new language. Illegal aliens with criminal records pose a threat for a safe and secure environment, but without a decisive immigration plan to once and for all secure our borders, America is an open invitation for a few of the worst humanity has to offer.
Please don’t get me wrong on this.
The vast majority of immigrants, legal or illegal, are good people and will be opposed to criminal activity. It is the migrant law-breakers that are concerning. As climate drives more and more suffering souls north from southern communities, the fraction of the incarcerated will become a larger piece of the desperate migrating populace hell-bent on living here. And even if the relationship between immigration and crime is not significant as some research suggests, zero illegal criminals is the only acceptable stand to take.
Obviously, the cure for minimizing an unfathomable migrant march on our southern border is to transition from fossil fuel to carbon-less energy - ASAP. It doesn’t matter which consequence of global warming is being analyzed, does it? The energy transition solution is the only solution. In the global climate displacement study, cooling off where they were born will make those poor individuals turn around with a smile on their face, and return to where they really want to be.