Hope Border Institute

Hope Border Institute The Hope Border Institute (HOPE) is a unique strategy center for faith leaders pursuing justice at the US-Mexico border.

Through research, human rights advocacy, leadership development and humanitarian action, HOPE builds solidarity across borders.

As Labor Day approaches, immigration enforcement policies are hitting the economy hard. Learn more about the real costs ...
09/02/2026

As Labor Day approaches, immigration enforcement policies are hitting the economy hard. Learn more about the real costs in this week’s .

Third-country deportations are quietly on the rise, sending migrants to unfamiliar nations or back into danger. Read mor...
08/28/2026

Third-country deportations are quietly on the rise, sending migrants to unfamiliar nations or back into danger. Read more in this week's .

08/27/2026

Happening Now!

Enforcement once concentrated at the border is now happening across the country. In our report published earlier this ye...
08/21/2026

Enforcement once concentrated at the border is now happening across the country.

In our report published earlier this year with DHIA, Kino Border Initiative / Iniciativa Kino para la Frontera, Casa del Migrante Saltillo, Servicio Jesuita a Refugiados México, Centro de Atención al Migrante Exodus, Casa para Migrantes Jesús Torres and albergue diocesano ‘Belen’ — through the Red Pedro Pantoja found that Interior arrests by ICE jumped from 1 in 3 deportees in 2024 to nearly 4 in 5 in 2025.

Enforcement isn’t just at our border. It’s all over our country. And it demands an urgent and prophetic response from all of us.

08/18/2026

Though daily we are united in grief, we choose hope and faith. Hope that tomorrow can be better than today. Faith in a God who sides with the dispossessed. Belief in love’s power.

As Dylan Corbett (Executive Director of Hope Border Institute) shared with us during our webinar last month, ‘We hunger for justice, for a Church that builds bridges. That Church is the Church we want to be.’

Communities across borders are taking new action to defend migrants’ human rights. We are creating new hope, and you are an essential part of it.

📅 August 27, 2026
⏰ 10 AM MT / 12 PM ET

Join us for a conversation on good practices that you can implement with:

- Father Francisco de Roux, SJ, former President of the Colombian Truth Commission
- Dr. Amaya Valcárcel (Dicastery for Promoting Integral Human Development)
Alessandra Santopadre, Office of Cultural Communities and Rituals (Archdiocese of Montréal)
- Álvaro Botero (American University and consultant)

Gerardo Cruz of OSMECA and Red Clamor will lead the conversation.

Together, we are creating new opportunities for hope.

Register here: https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_7rNtH5XST-Smyd8I6IG8Xw #/

Border communities are setting a new standard in responding to mass deportations. Learn what’s to come in this week’s .
08/12/2026

Border communities are setting a new standard in responding to mass deportations. Learn what’s to come in this week’s .

Policies of mass detention have true, deep effects on our neighbors, our parishioners and our communities. As Archbishop...
08/07/2026

Policies of mass detention have true, deep effects on our neighbors, our parishioners and our communities.

As Archbishop Gustavo García-Siller (Archdiocese of San Antonio) writes in his pastoral letter, ‘We Will Come to You,’ released this week on the 100th anniversary of the elevation of the Archdiocese, ‘immigrant detention is not a distant story we watch on the evening news, but a real crisis on conscience that we grapple with ourselves in the local Church.’

And this response demands all of us.

📰 'Archbishop García-Siller's pastoral letter is a promise and a warning. We will come to you. Not with comfort. Not wit...
08/07/2026

📰 'Archbishop García-Siller's pastoral letter is a promise and a warning.

We will come to you. Not with comfort. Not with the language that makes us feel better about ourselves. But with the willingness to stand in wreckage and say: Your dignity is not negotiable. Your life is not disposable. We will not look away.

Whether the Church in the United States keeps that promise is up to us.'

In a recent op-ed for Religion News Service (RNS), Dylan Corbett (Executive Director of the Hope Border Institute) reflects on Archbishop Gustavo García-Siller's (Archdiocese of San Antonio) recent pastoral letter on immigration titled, 'We Will Come to You,' and the origins of Archbishop García-Siller's prophetic voice on migration.

🔗 Read the full piece in the comments below.

07/31/2026

‘The policies of mass deportation and detention are not merely political failures. They are spiritual failures.’

Bishop Mark Seitz of El Paso (Diocese of El Paso) reminds us that we, the Church, have a responsibility to show up and stand up for our brothers and sisters on the move. We will not abandon you. We will not look away.

Read more about the Border Refugee Assistance Fund and support today at hopeborder.org/humanitarian-action

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