Read a June 13, 2007, New York Times story about an African-American congregation in Mamaroneck, N.Y., that serves as an official hiring site for largely Hispanic day laborers. One expert says very few of the nation’s hiring sites are associated with African-American churches.

The Interfaith Immigration Coalition is a group of faith-based organizations that work for immigration reform and justice. Its umbrella covers 500 national and local faith-based organizations and individuals and includes Mennonite, Jewish, Catholic, Christian, Quaker and Unitarian groups.

The Gamaliel Foundation describes itself as a nonpartisan, faith-based organizing network of 72 affiliates in 26 U.S. states and five provinces of South Africa. The foundation is a leading advocacy group for comprehensive immigration reform.

The National Immigration Forum advocates for the rights and integration of immigrants and works for productive immigration reform. Ali Noorani is executive director.

The National Network for Immigrant and Refugee Rights works to protect the rights of immigrants and refugees and to promote social and economic justice globally. Catherine Tactaquin is executive director.

The libertarian Cato Institute in 2009 released a study claiming that legalizing undocumented workers in the United States would bring an added $180 billion to the U.S. economy during the next decade, while only toughening laws and tightening borders would actually hurt American households economically.

Read a May 2, 2010, feature in The Washington Post by Doris Meissner, a senior fellow at the Migration Policy Institute, who served as commissioner of the U.S. Immigration and Naturalization Service from 1993 to 2000.

Read a Religion News Service story about the Evangelical response to the Arizona immigration law, posted May 14, 2010 at the website of Christianity Today.

On May 12, 2010, Richard Land and Barrett Duke of the Southern Baptist Convention’s Ethics & Religious Liberty Commission released the draft of “A White Paper: Principles for Just Immigration Reform.” The draft builds on previous statements by viewing immigrants and immigration reform in a positive light and is very much in line with what other evangelicals are […]