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Amali Tower is the Founder and Executive Director of Climate Refugees. Previously she worked for the UN High Commissioner for Refugees and various NGOs in the humanitarian sector, including the US Refugee Admissions Program administered by the US Department of State's Bureau of Population, Refugees, and Migration.
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The US itself has created, and is now perpetuating, this crisis through short-sighted and ineffectual policies.
I have evaluated countless refugee cases. The oppression Black Americans face in the US would qualify as persecution.
![At the El Chaparral encampment in the Mexican town of Tijuana, just across the border from San Diego, California, some 2,000 migrants are trying to survive in abysmal conditions [Photo courtesy of Amali Tower]](https://www.aljazeera.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/amali-photo.jpeg?resize=270%2C180&quality=80)
