Associate Director Job Description Click on link to see full document. About the Kino Border Initiative The Kino Border Initiative (KBI) is a bi-national non-profit organization located on the U.S. and Mexico border of Ambos Nogales that exists to address the immediate needs of deported migrants, to educate about the reality of immigration at the border, and to promote humane border and immigration policies that affirm the dignity of human beings and protect human rights. Learn …Read More
Archives for 2014
Working Toward a Just and Humane Immigration Policy
By: Roxane Ramos The Jesuits of the United States, Jesuit Refugee Services/USA, and the Kino Border Initiative have issued a statement welcoming President Obama’s recent executive action to end the legislative gridlock and place pressure on Congress to make immigration reform the priority the American public know it to be. Though the President’s order will provide temporary stays of deportation to as many as five million undocumented migrants who live in fear of discovery and separation from …Read More
The Fuller Picture: Contemporary Mexican Photography
A new exhibit which chronicles the Mexican experience opens at the Bronx Documentary Center on November 15. Photographers Fernando Brito, Alejandro Cartagena, Mauricio Palos and Ruth Prieto Arenas cover a vast range of subjects, from family life in the U.S. to border scenes to the harsh reality of narco-crime and murder in Sinaloa. What all the work shares is the common thread of migration, and its deep effects on individuals, families and communities. Here is the New Yorker article: …Read More
KINO BORDER INITIATIVE TO PRESENT AT 17TH ANNUAL IGNATIAN FAMILY TEACH-IN FOR JUSTICE IN D.C.
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: November 11, 2014 NATIONAL CONTACT: Christopher Kerr, Executive Director, Ignatian Solidarity Network 216-397-2088 | ckerr@ignatiansolidarity.net KINO BORDER INITIATIVE TO PRESENT AT 17TH ANNUAL IGNATIAN FAMILY TEACH-IN FOR JUSTICE IN D.C. National Catholic Social Justice Conference to Commemorate 25th Anniversary of Six Jesuit Priests and Laywomen Killed in El Salvador WASHINGTON, DC – Kino Border Initiative will be featured as a breakout presenter …Read More
A Pilgrim’s Progress: The Legacy of Thanksgiving
By: Roxane Ramos The pilgrims and Native Americans who celebrated the first Thanksgiving have a lot in common with the migrants of today. There are many misconceptions about the origins of the U.S. celebration of Thanksgiving. For one thing, the now-legendary feast on Plymouth Plantation in 1621 was not a celebration of thanksgiving, but an acknowledgement of a successful harvest. Nor was it a “first”—it was common to set aside a time of thanks well before this Plymouth event, though …Read More
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