The Muslim Women Resource Center provides assistance to women immigrants and refugees, helping them integrate into U.S. society and the job market. It is based in Chicago.

Listen to an April 3, 2006, Talk of the Nation program on National Public Radio about the contentious issues of African-Americans, immigration and social justice.

The Gallup Poll (subscription required on some articles) has surveys on overall views of immigration.

A roundup of surveys on Americans’ views toward immigrants and immigration.

The Pew Research Center has an archive of reports, polls and news stories on immigration, with particular attention to the role of religion.

Read a Religion News Service story, posted on March 22, 2010, at Beliefnet.com.

A May 16, 2010, story in The New York Times about local governments around the country issuing official identification cards to enable immigrants of any status to avoid problems and even arrest.

A May 19, 2010, story in The New Republic by William Galston, a former policy advisor to President Bill Clinton.

In a Nov. 24, 2010, essay, Deal Hudson, a conservative Catholic blogger who has worked on Republican outreach to the Catholic community, voiced the opposite view as he argued that “the Dream Act is grossly unjust and makes a complete mockery of any idea of citizenship.”