The Extremist Campaign to Blame Immigrants for U.S. Environmental Problems
The Extremist Campaign to Blame Immigrants for U.S. Environmental Problems Download the PDF here. With growing frequency over the past four years, right-wing pundits, policymakers, and political operatives have fiercely and furiously blamed immigrants for the degradation and decline of nature in the United States. William Perry Pendley, who temporarily ran the U.S. Bureau of Land Management under former President Donald Trump, saw “immigration as one of the biggest threats to public lands,” according to an agency spokesperson. 1 A handful of right-wing anti-immigration zealots, including ...
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