"Jim" Corbett (October 8, 1933 – August 2, 2001) was an American rancher, writer, Quaker, philosopher, and human rights activist and a co-founder of the Sanctuary movement.
[2] Jim Corbett married Mary Lynn Shreffler, whom he knew from high school in Casper, Wyoming in 1955 after graduating from Harvard with his M. A.
After being stationed at Fort Bliss, El Paso, Texas, Jim Corbett worked for the US Forest Service, herded sheep in the Bighorn Basin of Wyoming, and helped his parents with a small ranch they had recently acquired outside Sierra Vista, Arizona.
These activists, under the auspices of churches and Quaker meetings, cited religious precedent of protecting people fleeing persecution, as well as the Geneva conventions barring countries from deporting refugees back to countries in the middle of civil wars (non-refoulement), to justify their actions.
[5] They found support for their work in Quaker meetings (congregations) in Arizona and Chicago, Illinois, as well as south Texas.