We are welcoming new Board Members & Board Leadership while honoring the faithful service of Board Members rolling off. Our board is going through exciting and bittersweet changes! First, we are saying a heartfelt “thank-you” and “good-bye” to Gerry Corrigan and Lisa Grant. As our faithful board chair, Gerry led Kino through critical events like an Executive Director search and a Strategic Planning Process. He did so in just two years. “His roots go back to the beginning,” says Executive …Read More
KBI Congressional Updates: Year in Review 2022
Read and download full report today: Congressional Updates Year in Review 2022 KBI recently published a report outlining the many instances of abuse and mistreatment we encountered when working with the migrants we accompanied this past year. Sadly, President Biden has not kept his promises to restore asylum protections and to create a more humane immigration system. Below you will find snapshots taken from our recently published, Congressional Update Year in Review, that illustrate the various …Read More
Celebrating the 20th Anniversary of “Strangers No Longer”
The spirit of radical welcome across the US is rooted in the on-the-ground reality people are living at the Kino Border Initiative in Nogales, Sonora, México, and what our brother Jesus tells us: that our own salvation is tied up in how we treat those we have pushed to the margins of society. At this moment when many are tempted to use images or words like “invasion” or “alien” to dehumanize and push away people traveling to the US to seek a better life for their families, we are called to move …Read More
Florence Project and Kino Border Initiative Condemn the Biden Administration’s Expansion of Title 42 and Other Anti-Immigrant Policies
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE January 6, 2023 CONTACT Florence Immigrant & Refugee Rights Project Greer Millard, gmillard@firrp.org Kino Border Initiative Gia Del Pino, gdelpino@kinoborderinitiative.org Florence Project and Kino Border Initiative Condemn the Biden Administration’s Expansion of Title 42 and Other Anti-Immigrant Policies “All of my dreams have been shattered. I don’t even have the heart to tell my mother that I was deported. When we were loaded onto the buses, I was …Read More
November – December Announcements
Join us for the Binational Posada on December 17. We invite you to join us to commemorate International Day of the Migrant with our binational posada. We will be standing in solidarity with migrants as we participate in Las Posadas, a religious festival celebrated in Mexico and various Latin American countries that reenacts Joseph and Mary’s journey. Click here for full details. Our shelter welcomes 2,000th migrant. We recently broke a new record for the shelter. In 2022, we have thus far …Read More
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