April 14th: KBI gathers migrant community for foot washing ceremony during Holy Week KBI staff and volunteers offered two sessions of foot washing for migrants during Holy Week. Father Max Landman gave Mass and welcomed migrants to have their feet ceremonially cleansed as a symbol of love, humility, solidarity and service. April 21st: KBI and Ignatian Solidarity Network host a webinar entitled, Witness from the Border- Title 42, to inform audiences of the new changes to Title 42 KBI’s …Read More
We Are Ready to Welcome Asylum Seekers: Border and Front-line Welcoming Providers and Advocates Oppose Keeping Title 42 in Place
The Kino Border Initiative was one of the 37 organizations who sent a letter to the Biden administration to oppose efforts to preserve Title 42 and keep his promise to welcome those seeking safety. Read below. Download here We Are Ready to Welcome Asylum Seekers: Border and Front-line Welcoming Providers and Advocates Oppose Keeping Title 42 in Place April 22, 2022 “The undersigned border and front-line legal and social services, faith-based, and humanitarian …Read More
March-April Announcements
KBI hosted a staff retreat KBI’s own Pedro De Velasco met with the Consul General of Mexico Sister Dani Brought joins KBI to learn from our Education and Advocacy teams Migrants marched on the second anniversary of Title 42, calling for its termination KBI sends the Biden Administration a letter in response to fatal Border …Read More
Call your Senators to VOTE NO on to bipartisan bill to keep Title 42 in place
Today, we received the disappointing news that a group of bipartisan Senators are introducing a bill that would prevent the Biden administration from lifting Title 42 until they see a plan. This message runs counter to advocacy both the migrants, KBI and the Florence Project has been pushing for the last two years to call out the racist use of Title 42 to bar migrants from seeking their right to asylum and to demand for its immediate full restoration. Many migrant lives hang in …Read More
Florence Project and Kino Border Initiative Welcome Plans to End Title 42
Download Press Release FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE April 1, 2022 CONTACT Greer Millard Florence Immigrant & Refugee Rights Project gmillard@firrp.org (602) 795-7407 Gia Del Pino Kino Border Initiative gdelpino@kinoborderinitiative.org (786)-451-5459 Florence Project and Kino Border Initiative Welcome Plans to End Title 42 "We have been waiting for so long for this news. We have been waiting and suffering." - Lucero, an asylum seeker who has been waiting for nine months for …Read More
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