The Guardian, republished by Grist, reports that neither U.S. nor international law recognizes climate displacement as grounds for asylum, and that the administration's crackdown has effectively shut the asylum system to people uprooted by environmental disasters. A woman from Honduras who was a teenager when Hurricane Mitch destroyed her family's home in 1998 and killed about 7,000 people, and who now lives in New York raising daughters who are studying to become a lawyer and a doctor, says that under the current administration 'every day it's more barriers.' A Sudanese doctor living in the U.S., whose country's farmland was devastated by climate-worsened drought as well as civil war, faces possible deportation under an order blocking entry from Sudan and dozens of other countries. A Somali man driven by drought from his farmland to Mogadishu has an asylum application pending and fears government 'attacks.' The UN estimates 250 million people were displaced by environmental factors over the past decade. Democratic lawmakers have proposed a climate visa for people fleeing extreme weather, but advocates say hopes for reform have faded. An attorney with the Center for Gender and Refugee Studies says that for people displaced by climate change, 'that door is closed.'