Our announcements this month include the KBI’s celebration of Easter; recent trips and presentations; and immersion experiences. In addition, the KBI congratulates Joanna Williams on completing her Master’s in Public Policy at Arizona State University. Holy Week: Lent and the week between Palm Sunday and Easter is always a moving time at the KBI. This year, as is KBI tradition, Father Samuel Lozano de los Santos, S.J., Director of Programs–Mexico celebrated the annual Pascual Mass in the … [Read more...]
Mothers and Migration
The composition of migrant populations at the U.S.–Mexico border is changing. Once dominated by men seeking jobs and security, today there are far more families with children, often led by women. How does motherhood impact migration, and what do migrant mothers face as they attempt to raise, support, protect, and seek better lives for their children? For decades, women have comprised about half of migrants worldwide—according to the United Nations, 49% in 1990, and dropping slightly … [Read more...]
Marisol’s Story: Escaping Domestic Violence
Like many women who suffer domestic abuse, Marisol bore her partner’s insults and assaults for a time, hoping he might change and wanting to keep her children and parents safe from violent repercussions. When she decided to file a report, the authorities would not intervene. Early this year, after a particularly life-threatening episode, there was no denying the danger of the situation—either flee or be killed. Until November, Marisol, 27, lived with her partner, Daniel, and their … [Read more...]
KBI Media Report: April-May 2019
Our report this month covers threats to the U.S. asylum system—directing asylum officers to reject applicants wishing to enter the country and denying bond to eligible asylum seekers in detention—and environmental factors that help explain growing migration from Central America. Concerns of Asylum Officers: U.S. asylum officers are starting to speak up—at their union meetings and to media—about their coercive work atmosphere under the Trump administration and its recently instituted … [Read more...]
Defund Inhumane Immigration Policies
The Trump administration has continually rolled back migrant and asylum seeker rights, attempted to use family separation as an immigration deterrence strategy, and exacerbated the humanitarian crisis at the border. Now, it is requesting billions of dollars in supplemental funds for the Department of Homeland Security to finish out FY2019, and a record $51 billion for DHS in FY2020. The administration’s immigration policies are inhumane, and these budget requests unconscionable. Please join … [Read more...]
- 1
- 2
- 3
- …
- 54
- Next Page »