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.

Jeffrey K. Salkin is rabbi of The Temple in Atlanta. He is also co-chairman of the Commission on Reform Jewish Outreach. He wrote the book Being God’s Partner: How To Find the Hidden Link Between Spirituality and Your Work (Jewish Lights Publishing, 1997).

Read a Jan. 19, 2012, essay in Christianity Today about the effect of decreasing immigration numbers on churches.

Written by Michelle Goldberg (W.W. Norton, 2006). Goldberg investigates the increasing religious radicalism that led to the re-election of George W. Bush in 2004.