He was the youngest and last survivor of the Big Six civil rights activists, a group led by Martin Luther King Jr. that had the greatest impact on the movement.
"The administration's efforts to effectively end asylum have been met with a massive outpouring of opposition from the public, particularly the interfaith community," said the Catholic Legal Immigration Network Inc.
Kino was ”a classic example of the 17th-century philosopher-scientist, where faith meets science,” remembered as a defender of the Indigenous people of what would become the United States of America and Mexico.
The Trump administration backed down from a move to strip visas from students taking classes online, but colleges must be vigilant in protecting their international guests, writes Drew Roberts of Santa Clara University.
In a moving ceremony at New York's St. Patrick's Cathedral, Cardinal Timothy Dolan blessed the cremated remains of Mexican nationals who had worked in city hospitals at the height of the pandemic and subsequently died from the virus before they were flown back to Mexico for burial.