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February 8, 2021 By Kino Border Initiative 1 Comment

Saulo’s Story: Holding on to Hope in Nogales

Before the sun rose on July 31st, 2019 Saulo was on a buswith his son, fleeing their home country of Honduras and leaving behind a wife and two daughters. In the darkness of the night, he made his way to the Guatemala-Mexico border. The Suchiate River serves as a natural divide between Guatemala and Mexico, where many migrants cross on makeshift rafts. Sitting with Saulo, he paints an image of the muddy water, the colorful murals on the Mexico side of the river, the hustle and bustle of the … [Read more...]

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January 11, 2021 By Kino Border Initiative Leave a Comment

Josefa’s Story: “A light in the middle of the darkness”

Each month, we bring to you the story of a migrant, which typically document the life they left behind, their journey, and hopes for the future. New narratives emerged in 2020 that we have never experienced before as many asylum seekers spent the entire calendar year waiting in Nogales to access the asylum system in the United States. They never imagined spending more than a year in Nogales. Neither did we. However, amidst the uncertainty and inhumanity of these long waits, migrants, too, were … [Read more...]

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December 8, 2020 By Kino Border Initiative 1 Comment

Andrea’s Story: Escaping Michoacán

Andrea remembers her life in Michoacán with nostalgia: the views of the mountains, her family’s home, the culture that surrounded them. Her husband had a stable job working as a brick-layer and she was able to stay home with her two young sons, Jaime and Cesar. As she speaks of their home, she envisions and describes the field beside their house where her sons could play and run free. “We were happy, we never thought we’d leave.” One November evening in 2019, her husband stepped out on a … [Read more...]

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November 2, 2020 By Kino Border Initiative Leave a Comment

Alfonso’s Story: Escaping to Nogales

On a brisk evening in the small town of Tecpán in Central Mexico, the mafia set flames to Alfonso Mendoza’s vehicle and house while his wife, daughters, sons-in-law, and grandchildren were asleep inside. He was just five blocks away, mourning the death of his twenty-year-old nephew, Omar who had been murdered mere hours before. The mafia had total control of Tecpán and the Mendoza family had ultimately fallen into its web of violence. “Everything begins with them seeing people prosper, seeing … [Read more...]

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October 12, 2020 By Kino Border Initiative 2 Comments

Esmerelda’s Story: From Fleeing to Activism

Be our spokespersons, stand in solidarity with us, fight with us. We are in this together and we await your help so that they help us and open the borders as quickly as possible. The persecution of Esmerelda’s family traces back 13 years, when her father-in-law was attacked by a group of men from the community of their small town on the border of Guerrero and Oaxaca. Their family has lived a life of caution ever since, watching Guerrero succumb to delinquency and danger, permitted by a … [Read more...]

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