On May 11, 2010, an unusually broad range of evangelical leaders released a joint statement that calls for a “just immigration policy” that “begins with securing, not closing, our borders, one that provides a temporary guest-worker program, and one that offers a pathway for earned legal citizenship or temporary residency.”

Read a July 21, 2010, discussion among religious leaders on immigration reform, hosted by the Council on Foreign Relations.

Jeffrey K. Salkin is rabbi of The Temple in Atlanta. He is also co-chairman of the Commission on Reform Jewish Outreach. He wrote the book Being God’s Partner: How To Find the Hidden Link Between Spirituality and Your Work (Jewish Lights Publishing, 1997).

Rabbi Bradley Shavit Artson is vice president of American Jewish University. He studies environmental ethics, racial and economic justice, philosophy and the interplay between religion and science.

Rabbi Lawrence Kushner is a writer, speaker and teacher at Congregation Emanu-El in San Francisco. He is also a visiting professor of Jewish spirituality at the Graduate Theological Union. He wrote the book Jewish Spirituality: A Brief Introduction for Christians (Jewish Lights Publishing, 2001).

Read a Jan. 24, 2011, statement from the Lutheran Immigration and Refugee Service saying the agency is “gravely concerned that the punitive immigration bills being considered by many state legislatures would contradict the biblical mandate to care for sojourners in our midst.”

The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints on June 10, 2011, issued a statement saying that immigration reform was a job for the federal government and that the Mormon leadership “is concerned that any state legislation that only contains enforcement provisions is likely to fall short of the high moral standard of treating each other as […]

Russell D. Moore, dean of the School of Theology at the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, wrote a June 20, 2011, column in The Christian Post, “Immigration and the Gospel,” that calls on evangelicals to be welcoming to immigrants.

Read a June 20, 2011, story at Religion Dispatches about the LDS Church’s position on immigration.