Climate change swelling Central American migration to US

Climate change swelling Central American migration to US - experts

By THE MANILA TIMES

Oct 24, 2018 12:06 pm

Honduran migrants heading in a caravan to the US gather at the Guatemala-Mexico border bridge in Ciudad Hidalgo, Chiapas state, Mexico, on October 19, 2018. AFP PHOTO

PANAMA CITY: Deepening climate change will swell Central American migration to the United States, the region's environment ministers and experts warned on Tuesday (Wednesday in Manila) as a caravan of mostly Honduran migrants trekked towards the US border in defiance of President Donald Trump.

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