There is a cruel irony in how language can be made complicit. ICE patrols a warming world, punishing those who flee the very crises our civilization has engineered. Whole peoples are displaced when harvests fail, when coastal waters swallow villages, when war over dwindling resources erupts. Many who cross deserts or seas in desperation are climate refugees, though their story is often rewritten as criminal, deviant, or unwanted. The Earth’s melting ice finds its human mirror in those forced to move when the ground of survival slips away.