New Sanctuary Movement

After having another meeting with the community leaders, we identified some families who could be the new candidates for the sanctuary in Arizona. Trina and Magdalena have interviewed the families.
We have been doing one-to-ones this past two weeks and try to develop some information to put into the materials we will prepare in order to educate the communities in Phoenix area. We ask the leaders about their role and contributions to social justice in their communities. If we are meeting with the religious leaders, then we look for information about their congregations and how supportive they are with social justice endeavors.
Most churches and mosques in the area claim that they would be spiritual allies to the movement but so far we have only one leader who committed her church to be a physical sanctuary. She has a lot of undocumented people in her congregation so she was extremely passionate. On the other hand, one religious leader refused to talk about the new sanctuary movement because of the same reason ( he has a lot of undocumented people in his congregation). He said that he did not want to jeopardize them. I was amazed at how different responses we received because of the very same reason.
We have also talked to a few senators in the AZ capital. We have emailed all the representatives and senators, most of the people who answered back are democrats or moderate republicans. Sarah and I feel like we are preaching to the choir. We are talking to the people on our side. We definitely are looking for ways to reach others who beg to differ with our opinions. How can we do that?
One of the reps said that there was not enough complaints on our side to the capital. She said that only republicans voiced their opinions and came to lobby. The democrats have no help because people do not send them emails asking them to vote no to anti immigrant bills but they get a lot of emails to vote yes. When they vote yes, they receive "thank you" emails. Therefore, even though they do not want to vote yes, I have to, because of lack of public cover.
I think that it is time to teach people how to lobby and write letters to the reps. It is time to learn the language that affects the anti-immigrant side. We have been talking in our language to ourselves, now we need to talk to them in the only language they understand, which is the "money language. " If we make them realize, the the USA needs immigrants for economic reasons, we can pull them to our side.