Pierrette Hondagneu-Sotelo is a sociology professor at the University of Southern California and an expert on issues of illegal immigration and the illegal-immigrant rights movement in the United States. She is the author of Doméstica: Immigrant Workers Cleaning and Caring in the Shadows of Affluence.

Josh DeWind is program director of the Migration Program of the Social Science Research Council in New York City. He was a founding member of the Center for Immigrants Rights, National Coalition for Haitian Rights and National Immigration Forum.

Ernie Cortes Jr., the recipient of a MacArthur “genius” award, is on the executive team of the Industrial Areas Foundation, which engages in community organizing to encourage social change. He is widely known for developing leadership among Latino immigrant communities.

Gregory Chen is director of advocacy with the American Immigration Lawyers Association, which argues for “comprehensive reform that will make immigration safe, orderly, legal and controlled.”

Read a March 22, 2010, story at Christianity Today that discusses the changing demographic and political calculus for evangelicals.

The White House website has a fact sheet on the DREAM Act laying out the arguments for the legislation.

Jan. 29, 2013, The Dallas Morning News blog post which takes offense to the belief that the religious left needs to be more combative to gain traction in the national conversation.

Jan. 11, 2013, The Washington Post article on what the religious left must do to gain more national and media attention.

Transcript of an April 16, 2013, letter to President Barack Obama questioning the American drone program signed by several progressive religious leaders.