Katie Conway is an immigration and refugee policy analyst for the Episcopal Church in its Office of Government Relations in Washington, D.C. She can discuss the church’s work in the crisis involving unaccompanied children migrants.

Nancy Springer is the assistant rector at St. Alban’s Episcopal Day School, and is the former assistant rector of St. John’s Episcopal Church in McAllen, Texas. In her former position, she and her congregation worked with other border churches and government agencies to help unaccompanied children and other migrants in U.S. custody.

The Rev. Susan Copley is the rector of Christ Episcopal Church in Tarrytown, N.Y. She and members of her congregation visit unaccompanied migrant minors in U.S. custody at a nearby transitional home.

The Polaris Project, which works to eradicate human trafficking, collected data from 2007 through 2012, from people who contacted it for services or information, and issued this report. Among its findings: 41% of sex trafficking cases and 20% of labor trafficking cases referenced U.S. citizens as victims. The report and its graphics can be downloaded.

Vijay Singal is the secretary of the Hindu Council of Australia in Homebush, New South Wales. In 2012, Hinduism became the fastest-growing religion in Australia, largely due to the number of Indian and Sri Lankan immigrants coming to the continent. He can discuss the diversity of Hinduism in Australia.

Read a June 30, 2014, article from CNN about President Obama’s action on immigration policy issues in the wake of the 2013-14 surge in migrant children at the United States’ southern border.

Read a June 27, 2014, article from Bloomberg View about national developments in immigration policy in the wake of the 2013-14 surge in migrant children at the United States’ southern border.

Read an article from July/August 2014 issue of Mother Jones about the expected surge of unaccompanied children arriving at the southern border of the United States in 2014.

The New York Times maintains an archive of all its coverage on national immigration and emigration issues.