The Kino Border Initiative and the U.S. Jesuit Conference support the eight DREAMers who tried to re-enter the United States on Monday, July 22, asking for humanitarian parole. Today a statement was released, expressing this support and connecting the action of the DREAMers to the overall effort for comprehensive immigration reform. July 23, 2013 The U.S. Jesuit Conference and the Kino Border Initiative recognize the enormous courage of the eight young “DREAMers” who crossed through a …Read More
Archives for July 2013
All They Will Call You Will Be Deportees
A plane left Oakland, California on July 28, 1948, headed for Mexico. The plane was chartered by the U.S. Immigration Services and was carrying 32 people. Twenty-eight were Mexican citizens. They were being returned to Mexico courtesy of the U.S. government. Many were part of the bracero program and had finished their government-sponsored work contracts. Others had entered the country illegally and were being deported back to Mexico. Not long after take-off, over Coalinga, California, the …Read More