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Education

Presentations

Our education team is available to be present, either virtually or in-person, at your school, church, or organization to discuss a variety of topics related to immigration and our work in Ambos Nogales, which could include a presentation about the following:

  • US-Mexico border realities and current policies
  • How KBI and other faith groups are responding to the humanitarian crisis
  • Undocumented immigration and the causes and possible solutions
  • Catholic social teaching and incorporating reflection about our beliefs and concerns regarding immigrants and immigration

Immersion Experiences

Since KBI’s inception, we have been offering eye-opening, informative, reflective Immersion Experiences ranging from 3-6 days. Our Immersion Experiences are focused on transformative experiences for participants as well as developing long-term partnerships with organizations such as high schools, universities, and churches to create more welcoming communities across the United States.

We offer participants an opportunity to spend time with migrants and asylum seekers, learn from their stories, and understand the broader context of the border and immigration.

Because of higher vaccination and lower infection rates on both sides of the border, we are once again offering in-person immersions. These Immersion Experiences allow participants to cross the border to Nogales, Sonora to meet with migrants and asylum seekers, tour our resource center, accompany the Kino team in providing humanitarian services, as well as hike in the desert, converse with ranchers in a rural town in southern Arizona, visit organizations in Tucson, and reflect on legal issues and the immigration system.

Immersion Experiences are intended to humanize the immigration issue and to recognize its complexity, while emphasizing accompaniment of migrants on their journey. Over the course of the experience, there are spaces for reflection on the experiences and times to plan follow-up activities and action.

“At first, I made many assumptions about the immigration system. I assumed the United States had a functioning refugee and asylum programs for migrants. I assumed that coyotes were not working for the mafia. I assumed that people were not dying of thirst in the desert. I assumed that everyone who believed in the wall were bad people. All those assumptions have been challenged during my time in Kino.”

– student after participating in an immersion group

"The KBI Experience for me was absolutely an apex on my personal and spiritual journey. It was challenging, emotionally and physically, but it was so life-giving and life-affirming. I can say with confidence that after this experience, I have a much clearer sense of my calling to share in Jesus' mission to embrace the Cross, and to recognize and honor the Christ within all of us, but especially those among us who are too often overlooked and relegated to the margins of our societies. And, in particular, that this is work that I can do now.”

- Jesuit candidate after participating in an immersion group

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KINO BORDER INITIATIVE
OUR LOCATION IN USA
P.O. Box 159
Nogales, AZ 85628-0159
(520) 287-2370
OUR LOCATION IN MEXICO
Boulevard Luis Donaldo Colosio #384,
Interior A
Colonia FOVISSSTE II
Nogales, Sonora, C.P. 84020
011-52 (631) 316-2086
(If dialing from the US: 011-52)
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