We as southern Arizona groups and other allies denounce the militarization of our communities, which is represented at the Border Security Expo in San Antonio, and instead take this opportunity to highlight what security truly means to our community. Security means the prioritization of human life and human dignity. That means an end to the strategy of enforcement through deterrence, which pushes individuals to harsh and deadly terrain, as well as other enforcement techniques that lead to a …Read More

January 25, 2017 For Immediate Release Contact: Fr. Sean Carroll, SJ 520-287-2370, scarroll@kinoborderinitiative.org We at the Kino Border Initiative reaffirm our commitment to work toward binational solidarity and humane, just and workable migration policies, especially considering today’s executive actions that instead cause division, dehumanization, and injustice. We are deeply concerned about the Trump Administration’s plan to dramatically expand border enforcement, including hiring …Read More

Osorio Chong, Secretary of Governance Ardelio Vargas Fosado, Comissioner of the National Migration Institute Luis Raúl González Pérez, President of the National Commission of Human Rights To civil society To the media The below signing organizations have learned of and presented complaints about the following issues: People who are fleeing from their country and seek protection in the United States are being turned away by Mexican and US authorities. In cities such as Tijuana, Mexicali …Read More

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE August 3, 2016 Nogales, AZ and Nogales, Sonora - A report released August 2, 2016 from the United States Commission on International Religious Freedom (USCIRF), Barriers to Protection: The Treatment of Asylum Seekers in Expedited Removal, confirms the first-hand testimony that the Kino Border Initiative (KBI) has gathered about individuals who are wrongly deported to danger. It shows that Customs and Border Protection (CBP) ignores migrants when they express fear and …Read More

This week we released our report based on a statistical study of migrants in the comedor. In "Our Values on the Line: Migrant Abuse and Family Separation at the Border", we find that that U.S. Customs and Border Protection is not fulfilling its obligation to protect the civil and human rights of migrants apprehended, detained and deported back to Mexico. Please read the report, share it with your friends, and send the link to your Congressional representative with a note about why we must have a …Read More