By: Roxane Ramos Lucy Howell, Fund Development Committee Chair For Lucy Howell, working on immigration issues and advocating for more compassionate and just treatment of the undocumented migrants who cross into the U.S. is not only a matter of conscience. It is a matter of faith, gratefulness for the blessings in her life, and a conviction to help those in less fortunate circumstances. As a mother who raised four children and grandmother who dotes on four grandkids, she finds the plight of …Read More

By: Roxane Ramos The number of women migrants from Mexico has doubled over the last 20 years. They face greater, graver dangers than their male counterparts, but still make the journey. Why? Even as migration across the U.S.–Mexico border has leveled off in recent years—due to increased militarization along the border and the frightening hazards of a desert crossing—all experts agree that the number of women migrants has increased substantially. Women make up 25–45% of undocumented …Read More

By: Roxane Ramos The Missionary Sisters of the Eucharist provide aid, comfort and a temporary home to deported migrants. The first thing you notice about the Kino Border Initiative’s Aid Center for Deported Migrants is the overwhelming warmth and welcoming atmosphere of the place. This modest, makeshift space, known as the comedor, accommodates 50–60 recently deported migrants for breakfast and lunch everyday, including holidays. And the substantive meals that issue forth from the tiny, …Read More

Marla Conrad, KBI Advocate/Volunteer Coordinator By: Roxane Ramos The life-altering moment occurred on a trip to Morocco in 2000. Looking back, it was little more than a commotion when three teenage boys were discovered underneath a bus bound for Spain, tied by their shoelaces and hoping to cross the border without incident. As Marla Conrad, a passenger on that bus, reflects, “I did not completely understand what I was witnessing at that time, but it was my first look at the …Read More