Stop the Indefinite Detention of Children! After the public outcry in response to separated migrant children held in cages, the solution proposed by the Trump administration is to hold them in cages with their parents—with no time limit! Announced in early September, the new rule would reverse the long-standing Flores Agreement, which outlines standards of care and stipulates a 22-day maximum detention period for minors. The most effective way to fight back against this proposal is to get as …Read More
Call to Action: Support Human Rights in Nicaragua
Last month, a bipartisan group of U.S. senators introduced legislation to address the current crisis in Nicaragua. The Nicaragua Human Rights and Anticorruption Act of 2018 would: impose sanctions on Nicaraguan government officials responsible for protester deaths, human rights violations, and corruption; call for a negotiated political solution to the country’s crisis; require intelligence reporting on corruption and human rights abuses; and compel annual certification by the U.S. …Read More
Defending Asylum for Domestic Abuse Survivors
In the aftermath of Attorney General Sessions’ decision that domestic violence survivors will no longer be eligible for asylum in the U.S., the KBI joins the Center of Gender and Refugee Studies (CGRS) at U.C. Hastings to support these brave survivors in their pursuit of safety and protection. CGRS provided legal defense for the client in Matter of A-B, the ruling Sessions reversed last month, thereby overturning a hard-won precedent that affirmed domestic violence as grounds for asylum. We …Read More
Comunicado sobre personas llegando a las garitas de Nogales
Desde hace 9 años, la Iniciativa Kino para la Frontera tiene como uno de sus objetivos, atender a personas y familias que huyen de la violencia de Centroamérica y México, para buscar protección en los Estados Unidos. A estas personas les brindamos orientación y acompañamiento, cuando tomen la decisión de solicitar el asilo en EUA y México. Es importante hacer del conocimiento a Casas y Albergues para migrantes, así como a ONG´s que trabajan en la protección de los derechos de las personas …Read More
Advocating for Family Unity
The family is at the center of community life—immediate and extended family, the family of church, neighbors and humanity—and for Catholics and others, we are called to consider all who we encounter as our brothers and sisters. The current “zero tolerance” immigration policy at the U.S.–Mexico border, which has resulted in all adults referred to criminal prosecution and the separation of 658 children from their parents in the first thirteen days of the program, is a violation of this most basic …Read More