Read a Jan. 3, 2013, Washington Post story about the White House’s use of executive powers to reshape immigration while awaiting congressional action on reform.

Read a Jan. 12, 2013 CNN story, “Evangelical Christians prepare for ‘largest ever grassroots push on immigration’.”

Read an April 21, 2013 interview in America magazine with Daveed Gartenstein-Ross, a visiting research fellow at the International Centre for Counter-Terrorism—The Hague and a senior fellow at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies in Washington, D.C.

Nina Shea is director of the Hudson Institute’s Center for Religious Freedom, based in Washington, D.C. She has been an international human-rights lawyer for more than three decades, and her areas of expertise include Islamic law and human rights. Contact through David Tell, director of public affairs and special projects.

Paul Marshall is a senior fellow at the Hudson Institute’s Center for Religious Freedom in Washington, D.C., and has written or edited many books about religion and politics. He served as editor and contributor for Radical Islam’s Rules: The Worldwide Spread of Extreme Sharia Law.

Michelle Whittaker is communications director for the United Methodist Church’s General Board of Church and Society. Part of the GBCS’s mission is to promote “personal, social and civic righteousness.” Contact through the website.

Tom Morris, a philosopher, author and president of the Morris Institute for Human Values in Wilmington, N.C., contributed a chapter to a book on philosophy and Harry Potter from Open Court Publishing. Morris’ chapter concerns courage. Morris’ books include If Aristotle Ran General Motors (Henry Holt & Co., 1998) and Philosophy for Dummies (For Dummies, 1999).

TheHumanist.com is the daily online news site published by the American Humanist Association. It is based in Washington, D.C. Contact through the website.

The Washington Report on Middle East Affairs is a 76-page magazine published nine times a year. It focuses on news and foreign policy in the Middle East. Richard H. Curtiss is executive editor.