Father Sean Carroll, S.J., executive director of KBI, will travel to Fairfield, Connecticut this week to deliver the keynote address at an event sponsored by Fairfield College. Entitled, “Solidarity on the U.S.-Mexico Border: Kino Border Initiative in Words, Deeds, and Images,” the event is a campus wide initiative that includes Fr. Sean´s lecture and an art exhibition. On exhibit will be People With No Names: The Undocumented, an exhibition of oil paintings by artist Pamela Hoffmeister that …Read More
War on Immigrants Replacing War on Drugs
In an effort to address the serious overcrowding in prisons in the United States, the federal government is ratcheting down a bit its War on Drugs. Recently US attorney General Eric Holder announced new sentencing directives for low-level drug offenders charged with crimes that aren’t gang-related or violent. At the same time, the government has embarked on an unprecedented campaign to criminally prosecute undocumented immigrants crossing the border. As a result there is a new wave of …Read More
KBI Welcomes Two New Staff Members
The Kino Border Initiative is happy to announce the addition of two new members to our team. Sister Alicia Guevara Perez, M.E. and Sister Cecilia Lopez Arias, M.E. have joined the team and will serve as Migrant Aid Coordinators in our soup kitchen and our shelter in Nogales, Sonora, Mexico. We welcome Sisters Alicia and Cecilia as they begin their new commitments to serve migrant men, women and children here along the U.S - Mexico Border. …Read More
Kino Border Initiative and U.S. Jesuit Conference Support DREAMers
The Kino Border Initiative and the U.S. Jesuit Conference support the eight DREAMers who tried to re-enter the United States on Monday, July 22, asking for humanitarian parole. Today a statement was released, expressing this support and connecting the action of the DREAMers to the overall effort for comprehensive immigration reform. July 23, 2013 The U.S. Jesuit Conference and the Kino Border Initiative recognize the enormous courage of the eight young “DREAMers” who crossed through a …Read More
All They Will Call You Will Be Deportees
A plane left Oakland, California on July 28, 1948, headed for Mexico. The plane was chartered by the U.S. Immigration Services and was carrying 32 people. Twenty-eight were Mexican citizens. They were being returned to Mexico courtesy of the U.S. government. Many were part of the bracero program and had finished their government-sponsored work contracts. Others had entered the country illegally and were being deported back to Mexico. Not long after take-off, over Coalinga, California, the …Read More
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