Marisa Ugarte is founder and executive director of the Bilateral Safety Corridor Coalition, an alliance of governments and agencies that combat slavery and human trafficking along the U.S.-Mexico border.

Read a May 23, 2013, article about the human trafficking problem in Wisconsin and commentary on the film, Not Today, that portrays the violence and devastation of the lives of those forced into the slavery.

National Public Radio’s 2004 series on Immigration in America segment on “Faith and Assimilation.”

Transcript of a Nov. 14, 2003, Religion & Ethics Newsweekly program on immigration.

March 5, 2006, NPR interview with Kevin Appleby, director of migration and refugee policy for the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops, in which he describes immigration policy as a humanitarian and moral issue and said, “In the face of the stranger we see the face of Christ.”

March 14, 2006, Christian Science Monitor story about the involvement of religious leaders in the immigration debate and the willingness of some to consider civil disobedience.

March 19, 2006, New York Times story about differences over immigration policy between evangelicals and Catholics.

April 2, 2006, Washington Post article on former Los Angeles Cardinal Roger Mahony’s fight for immigration rights.

May 22, 2013, Ecumenical News article about a Pew Forum on Religion and Public Life study that found that the overwhelming majority of illegal immigrants are Christian.