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.

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.

Combined Jewish Philanthropies is an organization bring together the Jewish community’s resources, volunteers, leadership and expertise in Greater Boston.

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.”