Climate justice and immigrant justice are highly correlated. Seventy percent of the world is now controlled by governments that won elections by manipulating people’s fears that immigrants will compete for scarce resources and destroy the host country’s dominant way of life. At the same time, these governments are rapidly and systematically expanding the fossil fuel industry and undoing established environmental protections. The immigration crisis affects not only undocumented immigrants, international students, and green card holders. It affects our family, friends, neighbors, co-workers—and all of us who are the children, grandchildren, or descendents of immigrants. Immigrants are not “them”—they are “us.”

In this workshop we will look at the connection between the climate crisis and current immigration policies in the U.S. We will share tools that can help us to heal from the harm we have suffered, sustain ourselves, and stay connected as we engage in the fight for immigrant and climate justice.