Luis is from a rural town in Guatemala. He didn’t start school until he was 11 years old and at the time cleaned boots to pay for school fees. Later (at age 13), he started harvesting coffee. Once he was 16, a Christian nonprofit started to help him with the school fees and helped him graduate. The day he graduated, he was bursting with pride. It had been a long, hard-won accomplishment. Once Luis graduated, he started working for the same Christian nonprofit that had come alongside him. He …Read More

“You go into the unknown again, but now you go knowing that you are going to put your children in something safe. I don’t want to be afraid anymore.”- Madison’s story Names have been changed to preserve anonymity Madison, a single mother of three children, fled Michoacan after her sons witnessed a crime committed by the cartels. To safeguard their lives from retribution, they came to Nogales last fall to seek asylum in the United States, only to be denied at the port of entry. In an …Read More

 Today we are offering you an inside look at a conversation we had with Eva, a woman who migrated to Nogales to seek asylum with her son. When she was turned away at the border under Title 42, she became a member of the Revolucionarios, helping to mobilize migrants in Nogales. After nine months, she was able to begin the asylum process. Kino: Hi Eva. Thank you so much for sitting down with us. Would you tell us a little bit about how you came to be at Kino in Nogales? Eva: Yes. First, my …Read More