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FIRST MINI-IMMERSION EXPERIENCE OFFERS A GLIMPSE AT THE PLIGHT OF REFUGEES IN AMERICA
Historically, a highlight for many students in their senior year at Regis Jesuit is the opportunity to participate in a service immersion trip. Traveling to places like New Orleans, Belize, Alaska or the U.S./Mexico border, students both learn about and experience the culture and often hardships of the people they encounter. Due to current health and safety restrictions around COVID-19, the trips scheduled for spring and summer had to be canceled. In lieu of these traditional immersion offerings, the Ignatian Service Office has offered six local mini-immersions experiences for seniors.
In two separate immersion experiences in February, 19 seniors participated in the first of these entitled "Welcoming the Stranger Among Us: Justice for Immigrants and Refugees." The experience was focused on opening the hearts and minds of the participants to the wide array of migrant experiences and the relevant policies that impact their ability to make a new home in the United States and Colorado. Students heard from guest speakers from Casa de Paz, Jesuit Refugee Service, Colorado Immigrant Rights Coalition, as well as a personal account from Blanca Quintanilla, mother of Sophia Quintanilla '22, who recounted her migration story from El Salvador to the U.S and shared memories and photos of St. Oscar Romero before his assassination.
Cami Evangelista '21 and Maddie Proctor '21, also shared their eye-opening experiences and reflections on the school's first-ever trip to the Tijuana border last year to film the RJ Media documentary Crossing Borders, which the group watched parts of together. To end the day, participants gathered outside the ICE Detention facility in Aurora where our Jesuit novice, Mr. Joe Seiter, nSJ, led students through a meditation, praying and reflecting on the experiences of the roughly 1500 people who have fled their homeland are detained in that facility.
Students marked this as a profound and enlightening experience that helped to deepen their faith and expand their global perspective, in support of their formation as Men and Women With and For Others. Future mini-immersion experiences for this school year include two Environmental Stewardship and two Urban Plunge experiences in March and April.
If you would like to learn more about RJ Media's trip to the Tijuana border, read more in "Crossing Borders and Impacting Lives" in The Raider, or watch the official San Diego-Tijuana Crossing Borders trailer at www.regisjesuit.com/crossingborders. Plans are in the works to screen the full documentary on campus later this spring, so look for more information on that soon.
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Cami Evangelista '21 and Maddie Proctor '21, also shared their eye-opening experiences and reflections on the school's first-ever trip to the Tijuana border last year to film the RJ Media documentary Crossing Borders, which the group watched parts of together. To end the day, participants gathered outside the ICE Detention facility in Aurora where our Jesuit novice, Mr. Joe Seiter, nSJ, led students through a meditation, praying and reflecting on the experiences of the roughly 1500 people who have fled their homeland are detained in that facility.
Students marked this as a profound and enlightening experience that helped to deepen their faith and expand their global perspective, in support of their formation as Men and Women With and For Others. Future mini-immersion experiences for this school year include two Environmental Stewardship and two Urban Plunge experiences in March and April.
If you would like to learn more about RJ Media's trip to the Tijuana border, read more in "Crossing Borders and Impacting Lives" in The Raider, or watch the official San Diego-Tijuana Crossing Borders trailer at www.regisjesuit.com/crossingborders. Plans are in the works to screen the full documentary on campus later this spring, so look for more information on that soon.
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