National Jesuit News » Jesuit Father Peter Neeley http://www.jesuit.org/blog Just another WordPress weblog Wed, 16 Jan 2013 14:00:45 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 Jesuit Helps Those on the Border through the Kino Border Initiative http://www.jesuit.org/blog/index.php/2011/01/jesuit-helps-those-on-the-border-through-the-kino-border-initiative/ http://www.jesuit.org/blog/index.php/2011/01/jesuit-helps-those-on-the-border-through-the-kino-border-initiative/#comments Fri, 07 Jan 2011 12:00:30 +0000 NJN Editor http://www.jesuit.org/blog/?p=1808 Jesuit Father Peter Neeley Share

Jesuit Father Peter Neeley of the Kino Border Initiative (KBI) spoke to NPR about KBI’s efforts in the border town of Nogales, Mexico. Fr. Neeley says that relief operations like the KBI, which ministers to deportees with services that include a soup kitchen, are now common on the border.

“Tijuana, Mexicali, Juarez all have these kinds of services, but Nogales, when they started diverting more people through the desert, that’s when we saw the big need here. They need a really organized way to distribute the food and get more people fed and clothed,” Neeley said.

Neeley runs the cafeteria where KBI volunteers typically prepare three meals a day under a tent large enough to feed 200 people.

Crossing into the U.S. illegally is not a sin, said Neeley, it’s a misdemeanor.

Read or listen to the story on NPR.

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