The Catholic bishops of the United States have been longstanding backers of reform and sent a Dec. 2 letter to Congress urging passage of the DREAM Act, saying it was “the right thing to do,” as this news release explains.

Michael Gerson, the former speechwriter for George W. Bush and a prominent evangelical voice, dedicated his Dec. 7, 2010, column in The Washington Post to arguing on behalf of the DREAM Act.

An April 18, 2010, blog post by Cardinal Roger Mahony of Los Angeles decrying the Arizona law. Mahony is a leader among the nation’s Catholic bishops on immigration issues.

A May 10, 2011, story at Time magazine says that many Latinos are upset with the president because his administration has increased deportations of undocumented immigrants.

A June 13, 2011, story at Politico about the possibility of immigration crackdowns in various states.

An Aug. 24, 2011, Associated Press story about efforts by the administration and civil rights and religious groups to fight the Alabama law. The Alabama law requires schools to check whether students are in the country legally, requires all businesses to check the legal status of workers and makes it a crime to knowingly give an […]

Ahilan Arulanantham is a professor at the UCLA School of Law and Co-Director of its Center for Immigration Law and Policy (CILP). He formerly directed immigrant rights and national security cases for the American Civil Liberties Union of Southern California.

Shoba Sivaprasad Wadhia directs the Center for Immigrants’ Rights at Pennsylvania State University’s Dickinson School of Law.

Edward Alden, a fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations, is the former Washington bureau chief of the Financial Times. His latest book, The Closing of the American Border: Terrorism, Immigration and Security Since 9/11, examines U.S. visa and border policies in the wake of 9/11.