Read a column by an immigration lawyer at the website of the monthly magazine U.S. Catholics about the facts of immigration.

President Obama pushed for immigration reform in a major speech July 1, 2010, at the American University School of International Service in Washington, D.C. Read the official text of the address.

President Obama pushed for immigration reform in a major speech July 1, 2010, at the American University School of International Service in Washington, D.C.

The Pew Hispanic Center has a map (2011) of unauthorized immigrants in the U.S. with state-by-state data.

An analysis released Sept. 1, 2010, by the Pew Hispanic Center shows the annual influx of undocumented immigrants to the United States was nearly two-thirds smaller in the March 2007 to March 2009 period than it had been from March 2000 to March 2005.

The White House website has a fact sheet on the DREAM Act laying out the arguments for the legislation.

Rabbi Howard Avruhm Addison is the co-author of Jewish Spiritual Direction: An Innovative Guide from Traditional & Contemporary Sources (Jewish Lights, 2006) and co-founder of Lev Shomea, the first institute to train spiritual directors in the Jewish tradition. A congregational rabbi for 30 years, he is a professor at Temple University in Philadelphia and the G. G. Scholem […]

Rabbi Irwin Kula is president of CLAL, the National Jewish Center for Learning and Leadership, a think tank dedicated to training Jewish leaders. He wrote Yearnings: Embracing the Sacred Messiness of Life (Hyperion, September 2006), among others, and is a highly regarded commentator on the modern approach to understanding and practicing Judaism.

Debra Kolodny is executive director of Nehirim, an organization that aims to provide programming that empowers the LGBT Jewish community. She is also a volunteer and professional activist in the faith, labor, social justice, women’s, and LGBT communities.