Our Border Crisis

     There can be no reasonable doubt that our country is facing a crisis along our border. This fact has been verified over and over again not only by experts in the field of such occurrences,  but by the the American citizens who've suffered, continue to suffer, and will suffer in the future by the effects of our border crisis.   

   I'm talking, of course, about the crisis along our coastline, our country's border with the sea, where in recent years cities in coastal states have been battered by monster hurricanes and flooded by subsequent rising ocean waters and behemoth rains of biblical dimension.

      In 2017 and 2018 areas of Texas, Louisiana, Florida, Puerto Rico, North Carolina and South Carolina were invaded by hurricanes that massed out at sea then grew and intensified and churned with super-charged energy absorbed from the heat of too-warm ocean waters, then swooped across our shores onto our land to  wreak death and devastation so great that many people in the ravaged areas still haven't recovered their losses and some never will.

        Scientific data point to future hurricanes and storm surges - the rising post-hurricane waters - getting worse, bigger, more intense, lasting longer and subsequently causing more damage and loss of life in regions along our sea border. The reason is climate change, as the ocean temperatures rise along with that of the rest of the planet.   
​           Donald Trump pulled the United States out of the Paris Agreement, the purpose of which is to bring all nations together to combat climate change and its destructive effects on our planet.

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​         Donald Trump pulled the United States out of the Paris Agreement, the purpose of which is to bring all nations together to combat climate change and its destructive effects on our planet.

     In 2017 the Federal Emergency Management Agency - FEMA - was sucked dry by the hurricanes and lacked sufficient funds to deal with the scope of the destruction they wrought. In 2018 Donald Trump cut FEMA's budget by $10 million and diverted the money to the Immigration and Customs Enforcement - ICE - detention program.
     FEMA contractors are currently not working on disaster response projects due to the government shutdown, nor is the FEMA website being managed due to a lapse in federal funding.

     Tragically, the President of the United States is neglecting our border crisis.   

References:
 "A Warmer World Makes Hurricanes Wetter and More Intense,"
https://www.apnews.com/47d8e0bf05354260931de08ad9976a37

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/new-data-hurricanes-will-get-worse/

https://www.businessinsider.com/hurricane-season-2017-maria-irma-harvey-2017-9

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2018/09/11/femas-budget-cut-10-million-support-ice-documents-show/1274723002/

https://www.fema.gov/lapse-federal-funding-impact-fema-website-operations-notice

https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2019/01/10/hundreds-fema-contractors-ordered-halt-work-government-shutdown-drags/?utm_term=.82feea36d699