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Nancy Pelosi: “Much migration, especially from the Northern Triangle in…”

Featuring: Nancy Pelosi, Democratic | Speaker Emerita, U.S. House California, District 11

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Sen. Whitehouse, Leader Jeffries, and Speaker Emerita Pelosi on Climate Change

Published | Video Starts at 11:25

It's a security issue. Security issues. We go around the world and study migration and the rest. Much migration, especially from the Northern Triangle in Central America, [is] because of drought. drought. They couldn't farm and they didn't have food that they were growing for themselves. So it's a migration issue and the migration issue is a security issue. (11:25–11:32)

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Asserts that drought is a significant factor driving migration from Central America.

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