Shaun Waterman writes about a new think tank report: “’Climate migrants’ projected to flood U.S.” There are plenty of reasons to protect ourselves against immigration pressures, and I’m all for guarding against prospective threats. But this sort of thing smells like an attempt to recruit conservatives — with their atavistic concerns for sovereignty and nationhood — into the project to socialize the means of production in the name of climate change. The report itself makes that agenda clear:

The United States is likely to be highly attractive to our southern neighbors seeking refuge. This is best evidenced by the current influx of illegal immigrants across our southern borders. As these factors are aggravated by dwindling resources and loss of land, American border patrols should expect to see increased traffic.

Addressing climate change is a crucial step in stemming and managing this potentially massive tide of immigration.

Before we surrender our liberty and our prosperity in a vain attempt to regulate the Earth’s natural cycles, how about we try to actually control immigration with the tools we already have but refuse to employ?