The Quaker meeting houses (like the one Hickenlooper attends and that formed the basis for the framing of the US Constitution and its antecdents) were intended as temporary refuges against the abusive and exploitative Catholic and Abrahamic laws and legal fictions, including "virgin birther" legal fictions. 

If you impose these abusive laws & legal fictions, you are not a refugee, you are a fugitive. Eventually you have to go and do the hard, and likely painful, psychological work of asserting yourself for the reform needed in these Latin American countries (like "documenting" a decent sovereign constitution). Especially in the case of Mexico or Honduras, where more than 10% of the citizenry is living in the US illegally, that is enough people to obtain reform peacably. Any Quaker will tell you so.

Hickenlooper (descended from colonial Philadelphia) himself has issues with being stuck in the ideology of the 1600s - most people from this background have moved from this.