Water
Earth Day 2018 has passed, but click here for tips to “make every day Earth Day.” Also, please take a moment to follow up Earth Day by signing this petition to urge world leaders and government officials to limit single-use plastics!
In related news, would you believe that a U.S. laboratory has discovered a plastic-eating enzyme that can be used to assist our efforts in eliminating plastic waste?! Click here to read more .
Immigration
immigrant threatened
with deportation.
Listen to a podcast with Cardinal Joseph Tobin, Archbishop of Newark, NJ, where he discusses Catholic teaching on migrants and refugees, developments in immigration and refugee policy, ideological polarization surrounding immigration in the United States, the provision of sanctuary to migrants, and how faith communities can become more involved on immigration issues. Click here to listen.
Click here to read a letter to the editor by Genevieve Cassani, SSND, on the Trump administration’s decision to deploy National Guard troops to the Mexico border.
Immigration and Trafficking
The U.S. State Department estimates that between 14,500 and 17,000 people are trafficked into the U.S. every year. Approximately 70% of those people experience undocumented status. According to this article by Katherine Yoo, an attorney for the Human Trafficking Project, this administration’s anti-immigration policies are undermining the legal successes of anti-trafficking campaigns. Yoo writes, “Hyperenforcement by ICE has aggravated the fear of coming forward among undocumented victims of human trafficking, undermining the U.S. government’s own efforts to tackle the problem. … This administration’s anti-immigrant policies are sabotaging that hard-fought work by refusing to acknowledge that immigrants and victims of human trafficking are often one and the same.”
Haiti
Click here to read an article from the National Catholic Reporter that describes the link between human vulnerability and environmental degradation in Haiti. Please remember that our own environmental impact affects people everywhere, especially those in developing nations!
