Inslee: ‘A Lot’ of Immigrants Crossing the Border Are ‘Climate Refugees’

Sunday on NBC’s “Meet the Press,” 2020 Democratic presidential candidate Gov. Jay Inslee (D-WA) said “a lot” of the immigrants crossing the U.S. -Mexico border are “climate refugees.” When asked about President Donald Trump’s proposal to move immigrants to sanctuary cities, Inslee said, “This is yet another bombastic chaos that is simply not going to work for this ineffective president for several reasons. Number one, you can’t threaten somebody with something they are not afraid of. We are not afraid of diversity in the state of Washington. We relish it. It is the basis of our economic and cultural success. We are built as a state of immigrants. We have welcomed refugees as we did the Vietnamese refugees with the Republican governor back in the day, and we continue to welcome—that’s why I was the first governor to say our state was the first to take Syrian refugees.” -- More....