By: Roxane Ramos Later this month, and coinciding with the Pope’s visit and the KBI trip to Washington, D.C., the Jesuit Conference of Canada and the U.S. and the Kino Border Initiative will publish Our Values on the Line: Migrant Abuse and Family Separation at the Border, a follow-up to Documented Failures: The Consequences of Immigration Policy and the U.S.–Mexico Border (2013). It focuses on and increases our understanding of migrant abuse in the detention process and family separation, …Read More

By: Roxane Ramos On August 15, members of the Tucson community gathered at the Temple of Music and Art Lounge to celebrate the release of The Haunting of the Mexican Border: A Woman's Journey. To introduce local author Kathryn Ferguson’s reading, Gabriel Ayala, a Yaqui classical guitarist extraordinaire who has played for the president, the pope and at the Pan Am Games, was on hand to entertain the crowd with several moving pieces, and John Fife, co-founder of the Sanctuary Movement, shared …Read More

By: Roxane Ramos With this month’s Papal visit and ever greater attention on immigration issues, in this country and throughout the world, there are a number of things you can do to show your support of immigration reform and more humane policies. Write to your representative and senators to share with them our forthcoming report, Our Values on the Line (https://www.kinoborderinitiative.org/ after September 15). In your email, include a few sentences about why we need a more humane and …Read More