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