against drought and climate change in got mama la. it is making a bad situation worse and then complaining about what happens when the situation gets worse, complaining about people who come to the united states because food doesn t grow here anymore. in today s new york times, nicholas kristof has delivered invaluable reporting on why people leave guatemala to try to come to the united states under the headline food doesn t grow here anymore. that s why i would send my son north. the woman who said that has lost two of her sons. aged 7 and 14. to malnutrition. it s her other son, juan, who is now 11 who she would send north to mexico and then possibly the united states for his survival. she had to take she had to take juan out of school in second grade to go to work in the fields. that s just one of the families nick kristof met when he went to guatemala to listen to people s
they re not the first people trying to get to the united states of america because food doesn t grow here anymore. the irish famine of the 19th century began the wave of millions of irish citizens leaving their country led headed for the united states because food didn t grow there anymore. there were people like donald trump who the didn t want the irish come, people who wanted them to stay in ireland and starve to death as over a million of them did. british government which controlled all of ireland then made the famine much worse by some of the actions the government took and did not take and now the united states is making the situation worse for people in guatemala where so many want to leave because food doesn t grow here anymore. the trump administration was wants to cut back on the kind of international aid programs that could help farmers struggling against drought and climate change in got mama la. it is making a bad situation worse and then complaining about what happens wh