Kino featured on La Frontera with Pati Jinich. KBI was featured on the second season of La Frontera on PBS! La Frontera is an award-winning docuseries about the US-Mexico border through the travels of chef Pati Jinich. Click here to watch it. Grateful for a meaningful Holy Week and community foot washing. Many thanks to all who came to celebrate Holy Week with us this year. KBI staff, migrants, and washed each others’ feet during Holy Week. Clergy offered mass and welcomed migrants to …Read More
Jesuit Organizations Denounce Continuing Attacks on Asylum in the United States
Download PDF Jesuit Organizations Denounce Continuing Attacks on Asylum in the United States A Statement from the Leaders of the Ignatian Solidarity Network, the Jesuit Conference Office of Justice and Ecology, Jesuit Refugee Service/USA, and the Kino Border Initiative: We are deeply concerned by the Biden Administration’s persistent attempts to restrict the right to seek asylum at the U.S.-Mexico border. Working on the ground with migrants and asylum seekers, we see firsthand how …Read More
KBI Public Comment on President Biden’s Asylum Ban
Download PDF March 24, 2023 Daniel Delgado Acting Director Border and Immigration Policy Office of Strategy, Policy, and Plans U.S. Department of Homeland Security telephone (202) 447-3459 Lauren Alder Reid Assistant Director, Office of Policy, EOIR U.S. Department of Justice telephone (703) 305-0289 Re: Comment on the Proposed Rule by the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and the Executive Office for Immigration Review (EOIR) on Circumvention of Lawful Pathways, CIS …Read More
February – March Announcements
TAKE ACTION - Leave a public comment by March 27 to say #NoAsylumBan. President Biden announced his plan to propose new asylum restrictions despite his campaign promises to restore asylum (see President Biden's proposed asylum ban- 5 things to know). The proposed restrictions will prohibit most people from exercising their right to seek protection in the United States if they cannot prove they applied for and were denied asylum in a country through which they traveled through. The only …Read More
Meet our Board Chair & Vice-Chair
We recently welcomed two new leaders to our Board of Directors, Tony Dabdoub and Maria Silva. They recently began their terms as our new Board Chair and Vice-Chair, respectively. Both bring tremendous leadership experience and deep commitment to our work as residents of Nogales, Sonora. Maria Silva, a Nogales native, currently serves with the International Rescue Committee, where she supports migrants seeking asylum at the border. She first encountered Kino in 2017, when she began …Read More
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