John Fife

“There was a crisis in human rights at the border,” and the refugees who arrived at the border “were being captured and put in detention centers,” said Reverend John Fife. But despite having torture marks and what Fife called strong political asylum cases, the United States government wasn’t officially recognizing these migrants as refugees. So at that point “the only ethical choice we had left was to help them cross the border safely,” Fife said.