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out of? Well, I think that what is so important is for us to really lift up the hood on the root causes of migration. The climate crisis is absolutely one of them. However, you know, when we see these images on television, there really is so much kind of, I think, implicit racism and also just, I don't know, geocentrism when we look at this, because we just see these video shots to make it look as though there's hordes of people coming up on our border. There's never any exploration as to even where they're coming from. You just hear the word migrants, right? And there's this implicit suggestion that these migrants are from all across South America and Latin America, and all of these countries are poor and all of these countries are destitute, and they're all just knocking on the US's door.