A Gallup poll released Dec. 10, 2010, shows that a slim majority of Americans polled, 54 percent, would vote for granting legal status to illegal immigrants brought to the U.S. as children, which is the centerpiece of the DREAM Act.

Read about a 2009 study on churches’ outreach to first-generation immigrants in North America. LifeWay Research conducted the analysis for the North American Mission Board, the domestic missions agency of the Southern Baptist Convention.

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.

The Council on Foreign Relations has a web page listing a number of immigration experts and their contact information.

Read a Jan. 27, 2010, story in The Forward about the emergence of a political alliance between Jews and Latinos.

Read a March 20, 2010, post at USA Today‘s Faith & reason blog about the influence of the Bible on people’s views of immigration reform.

An April 30, 2010, Salt Lake Tribune article examines Mormons’ varying views on immigration reform.

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.