A Guardian analysis reveals how most of 39 countries facing US entry restrictions are most vulnerable environmentally

• ‘Every day it’s more barriers’: how the US is shutting out climate refugees

Donald Trump’s immigration crackdown is largely targeting people from the countries most vulnerable to displacement from climate-driven disasters, a Guardian analysis shows.

As the Trump administration pushes policies to boost planet-heating fossil fuels, millions of people are being forced to flee their homelands due to storms, floods and droughts worsened by the climate crisis.

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© Composite: The Guardian, AFP via Getty Images

Quarenta e nove cidadãos do Níger morreram de sede no deserto, na zona fronteiriça entre a Argélia, o Níger e o Mali, após a avaria do camião que os transportava, disseram quinta-feira autoridades locais. As 49 pessoas “morreram de sede numa zona remota situada a mais de 80 quilómetros a oeste de Assamaka”, segundo as autoridades da província de Agadez, que administra a zona, precisando que os viajantes regressavam do Mali. “Privados de água e incapazes de reparar o veículo, apesar dos esforços do motorista, dos seus ajudantes e dos passageiros, os viajantes viram-se presos no meio de um ambiente

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