Jennifer Allen Quotations

We hope to send a strong and clear message to the Senate.

From our experience, most of the folks that we work with are all staying here for the holidays. They're definitely staying for fear of not getting back in.

He's just the most unbelievable person I've ever met.

Parents didn't like the idea of their children possibly having to move twice.

To work to change practices, to change some of the policies, so that people's basic human rights and civil rights are protected and upheld.

Walls do nothing more than exacerbate the problem. Walls won't stop them (from crossing the border.) They will just push their migration routes to more isolated areas. The Minutemen are distracting policy-makers from the real solution, which is comprehensive immigration reform.

Radio is incredibly effective in the Spanish-speaking community. It's definitely been an impetus.

People had been afraid to speak out. They fear repercussions; they fear being targeted, because (the Border Patrol) is so dominant and so imposing in their communities, where they're told they don't have any rights.

They needed a school teacher to organize things,

It's an incredibly costly endeavor, and then on top of that, walls don't work. All the fencing has done for the last 10 years is to push people into crossing the border in more and more difficult and dangerous terrain.

They just keep throwing money at the border with all these new novelty things that they try. It's just a waste of taxpayers' money.

The issues and the reasons that people leave home are so much more compelling and profound than a wall. So it ends up being millions and millions of dollars wasted.

Immigrant communities and groups across the country are coming together to send a loud and clear message to decision makers in Washington D.C. that we are not the enemy but part of the solution.

This is mainly going to alleviate overcrowding at Double Churches. We're going to let fifth-graders who get assigned from those two schools to North Columbus remain at their schools, if their parents want them to continue there and they apply for a hardship. Students in the other grades can apply for a hardship, but we will look at space available.