May 1, 2013, Religious News Service article about the American group “Nuns on the Bus” going along the Southern border to push for immigration reform.

March 21, 2013, Talking Points Memo article about the 2013 Religion, Values, and Immigration Reform Survey by the Public Religion Research Institute.

The 2013 Religion, Values, and Immigration Reform Survey conducted by the Public Religion Research Institute in March 2013 found that support for immigration reform including a path to citizenship is over 50 percent for several religious and racial groups.

A poll released Sept. 17, 2010, conducted by the Pew Research Center for the People and the Press, that found that few people say that their religion shapes their views on issues outside of abortion and same-sex marriage including immigration.

An April 26, 2006, analysis of religious attitudes towards immigration from the Pew Research Center.

America’s Voice is a pro-immigration organization that tracks public polling information about immigration.

Richard Viladesau is author of Theological Aesthetics: God in Imagination, Beauty and Art (Oxford University Press, 1999), in which he discusses how beauty can reveal the divine. He is a professor of theology at Fordham University, a Catholic institution in New York, N.Y.

Vincent Phillip Muñoz teaches religion and and public life at the University of Notre Dame. He focuses on the founders and religious freedom.

Christians for Comprehensive Immigration Reform is a campaign of Sojourners that educates and mobilizes Christian organizations, churches, and leaders from across the theological and political spectrum to advocate for comprehensive U.S. immigration reform and compassionate immigration policies at the state level.