Pope Francis’s long-awaited U.S. visit was a celebration of unity, compassion, and open-hearted embrace of those who suffer—from poverty, violence, family separation, environmental hazards, and the insensitivity or blindness of government policies. In Washington, D.C., New York City and Philadelphia, in speeches before Congress and congregations, to students in small classrooms and to a filled Madison Square Garden, the pope emphasized healing these “open wounds” together. Since Pope …Read More
Archives for October 2015
The KBI in Washington, D.C.
The week before Pope Francis’s visit, Father Sean Carroll, KBI Executive Director, traveled to Washington to participate in a congressional staff briefing organized by the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops, and share the findings of a study conducted at the KBI, Our Values on the Line: Migrant Abuse and Family Separation at the Border (more about this jointly-published report from the KBI and the Jesuit Conference of Canada and the U.S. in the following article). A week later, as the Pope …Read More
Family Separation and Abuses at the Border
On September 15, right before the Pope’s arrived in the U.S., the Kino Border Initiative and the Jesuit Conference of Canada and the United States published Our Values on the Line: Migrant Abuse and Family Separation at the Border, a follow-up to Documented Failures: The Consequences of Immigration Policy and the U.S.–Mexico Border (2013). It focuses on and increases our understanding of migrant abuse in the detention process and family separation. The following findings, based on in-depth …Read More
October Announcements and Events
We invite you to review the KBI’s latest news, watch a recently posted Kino Teens video, and attend the Southern Arizona events listed here—one a fundraiser for the KBI—that raise awareness about border issues and the migrant experience. KBI Annual Report: The KBI 2014 Annual Report is ready and available both online and in print. Please take a look and share it with your friends. To download the digital version, go to: https://www.kinoborderinitiative.org/annual-report/. Immigrant …Read More
The KBI and Social Media
As part of its educational and communication efforts, the Kino Border Initiative has pages and channels on the major social media sites: Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram. If you already follow our pages and posts, you know how full of information they are—announcements about KBI activities, relevant reports and statistics, news articles from major media outlets and from the KBI newsletter, pictures of the migrants we serve and our work at the border and beyond. If you haven’t checked out our …Read More