The top 10 Democrats running for president repeated campaign promises to escalate U.S. aid to Central American countries and welcome more refugees as they debated Thursday in Houston.

And while they argued over differences on immigration and the climate crisis, no one mentioned the climate refugee crisis unfolding right now.

Last weekend, at least 119 Bahamians fleeing the destruction left by Hurricane Dorian were forced off a ferry headed for the east coast of Florida because they lacked visas.

This came despite visa-free travel between the United States and the Bahamas, a trip so common some make it without even needing passports. On Monday, President Donald Trump defended denying them access, claiming that among the refugees were very bad people and some very bad gang members and some very very bad drug dealers.

That same day, the Department of Homeland Security issued a new guidance cementing the visa requirement, meaning that the roughly 15,000 people on the devastated island who are without food or shelter cant expect to seek relief in the U.S.

The Category 5 storm flooded 70% of homes in the Bahamas. Two weeks later, the death toll, now at 50, is expected to rise as more than 1,300 Bahamians are still listed as missing.

The hurricane, Bahamian journalist Bernard Ferguson wrote in The New Yorker , is a clear case of climate injustice as a storm strengthened by global warming wreaked havoc on a country that contributed among the least planet-heating emissions.

The ABC News-Univision moderators did ask about one storm Hurricane Harvey, the Category 4 storm that drenched Houston two years ago. That lone question went to former Rep. Beto ORourke of Texas, whom the moderators asked, What meaningful action will you take to reverse the effect of climate change?