If the U.S. and the Marshall Islands do not renew their compact, 27,000 Marshallese could be forced to return to a nation racked by poverty, disease and rising sea levels.
With climate change and rising seas, the U.S. is about to face a reckoning for the toxic nuclear legacy we buried — and forgot — in the Marshall Islands.
Unemployment is estimated at about 36%, and recently the islands have been battered by a record outbreak of dengue fever. Some students also struggle with the shared history of the two nations, which, as is the case nationwide, is not part of the Spokane schools’ curriculum. “My parents work really hard, and they say someday they will go back,” said Thomas, who arrived in 2013 and hopes to eventually become a neurosurgeon.
They are also denied basic social services through Medicare, Social Security or specialized federal programs designed to help refugees and immigrants — benefits that were lost in 1996 when President Clinton signed a sweeping welfare reform law.
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