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

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.

Ron Wolfson is a Fingerhut Professor of education at the University of Judaism in Los Angeles. He was president of Synagogue 3000, which helps synagogues become a central part of American Jewish life. He wrote The Spirituality of Welcoming: How to Transform Your Congregation Into a Sacred Community (Jewish Lights Publishing, 2006).

Alan M. Dershowitz is Felix Frankfurter Professor of Law at Harvard Law School. He is considered “…the Jewish state’s lead attorney in the court of public opinion.” He wrote The Vanishing American Jew: In Search of Jewish Identity for the Next Century (Simon and Schuster, 1998). In the book, Dershowitz writes that “All Jews should ‘return’ to religious […]