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Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) Materials

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2006 General Assembly resolution on Advocacy and Welcome for All Immigrants

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2004 General Assembly Resolution Calling for a Comprehensive Legalization Program for Immigrants Living and Working in the United States

http://www.pcusa.org/acswp/pdf/immigration-resolution.pdf

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Immigration and Refugee Issues - printed from Advisory Committee on Social Witness Policy section of PCUSA website

4

The Thoughtful Christian, The Immigration Debate: What’s a Christian to Think?

Available (unless replaced by updated study) for purchase at nominal cost
from www.thethoughtfulchristian.com

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Statement of Professor Emeritus Dana Wilbanks, Iliff School of Theology, July 12, 2006

http://www.cirnow.org/file/593.pdf

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"The Ethics of Hospitality in a World of Nation-states," from Dana Wilbanks, Re-Creating America (Nashville, TN: Abingdon Press, 1996)

http://www.progressivechristianwitness.org/pcw/pdf/
Wilbanks_EthicsOfHospitality.pdf

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Resolution adopted March 16, 2006 by Session of Nassau Presbyterian Church, Princeton, NJ

http://www.nassauchurch.org/session/immigrationresolution.pdf

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Witherspoon Society, "Immigrant Rights"

http://www.witherspoonsociety.org/2006/immigrant_rights1.htm

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Jonathan Robert Nelson, Remarks for Asylum Panel Discussion, January 26, 2006

http://www.abanet.org/irr/committees/immigrants/transcript%202.html

Ecumenical and Inter-Faith Materials

10

Theological Sign-On Statement circulated by World Relief

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Interfaith Statement in Support of Comprehensive Immigration Reform, updated July 11, 2006

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Richard Land, First-Person: Immigration crisis requires biblical response

http://www.bpnews.net/bpnews.asp?Id=23137

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Bruce and Judy Hake, The Scriptural Foundations of an Open Immigration Policy

http://hake.com/pc/openimm.htm

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U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops, Strangers No Longer: Together on the Journey of Hope – A Pastoral Letter Concerning Migration from the Catholic Bishops of Mexico and the United States, January 2, 2003

http://www.nccbuscc.org/mrs/stranger.shtml

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Most Rev. Nicholas DiMarzio, A Labor Day Reflection on Immigration and Work, September 4, 2006

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Most Rev. Roger Mahony, Called by God to Help, New York Times (March 22, 2006)

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/03/22/opinion/22mahony.html?
ex=1300683600&en=7e672bb264fe6764&ei=5088&partner=rssnyt&emc=rss

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Rabbi Steve Gutow, Undocumented Immigration – A Jewish Response (July 12, 2006)

http://www.cirnow.org/file/587.pdf

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G. Jeffrey MacDonald, Religious Communities at Odds on Immigration, USA Today (April 27, 2006)

http://www.usatoday.com/news/religion/2006-04-26-immigration-religious_x.htm

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Dr. Lindy Scott, Wheaton College, "Mi Casa es Tu Casa: A Biblical Perspective on the Current Immigration Situation"

http://www.wheaton.edu/CACE/resources/onlinearticles/immigration.htm

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List of Resolutions & Official Statements by Churches & Faith-Based Organizations in support of comprehensive immigration reform, compiled by New American Opportunity Campaign

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Steve Boisson, Immigrants: The Last Time American Sent Her Own Packing

http://www.historynet.com/magazines/american_history/3437881.html?f
eatured=y&c=y

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Wendy Koch, U.S. urged to apologize for 1930s deportation, USA Today (April 5, 2006)

http://www.usatoday.com/news/nation/2006-04-04-1930s-deportees-cover_x.htm

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Julienne Gage, Saints at the Border, A Salvadoran refugee shares her memories of the Sanctuary movement, Tucson Weekly (March 21- 27, 2002)

http://www.tucsonweekly.com/gbase/Currents/Content?oid=45173

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Mae M. Ngai, The Lost Immigration Debate: Border control didn’t always dictate policy, Boston Review (September/October 2006)

http://bostonreview.net/BR31.5/ngai.html

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Mae M. Ngai, How grandma got legal, Los Angeles Times (May 16, 2006)

Current History

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Christine A. Scheller, A Delicate Hospitality: How Hispanic churches in Southern California negotiate the dilemmas of ministry with undocumented immigrants, Christianity Today (March 2, 2006)

http://www.christianitytoday.com/ct/2006/march/22.48.html

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Parrish W. Jones, Unintentional Immigrants, Baltimore Chronicle (December 16, 2005)

http://baltimorechronicle.com/2005/121605Jones.shtml

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Hon. Tom C. Rawlings, Immigration and the letter of the law, Daily Report (October 5, 2006)

http://www.ilw.com/articles/2006,1023-rawlings.shtm

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Associated Press, 30 Kids Left Behind After Immigration Raid, July 29, 2005

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Associated Press, SoCal city approves law against renting to illegal aliens, October 5, 2006

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Danica Coto and Peter St. Onge, What will happen to Kayla? and related stories, Charlotte.com, September 24, 2006 and subsequent

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Rachel L. Swarns, Tight Immigration Policy Hits Roadblock of Reality, New York Times (January 20, 2006)

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/01/20/national/20border.html?
ex=1295413200&en=21e86029597686a3&ei=5088&
partner=rssnyt&emc=rss

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Riki Altman and Terry Aguayo, Here Illegally, Guatemalans Are Prime Targets of Crime, New York Times (August 27, 2006)

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/08/27/us/27guatemala.html?
ex=1314331200&en=79291b5b2560d769&ei=5088&partner
=rssnyt&emc=rss

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Richard Perez-PeÑa, Research Scientist Gives $105 Million to N.Y.U., New York Times (August 12, 2005)

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/08/12/nyregion/12gift.html?
ex=1281499200&en=58ce3d9949f93c8f&ei=5088&partner
=rssnyt&emc=rss

35

Charisse Jones, Crowded Houses Gaining Attention in Suburbs, USA Today (January 31, 2006)

http://www.usatoday.com/news/nation/2006-01-30-overcrowding-suburbs_x.htm

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Bruce Lambert, L.I. Home Held Up to 64 Men, Authorities Say, New York Times (June 21, 2005)

http://travel2.nytimes.com/2005/06/21/nyregion/21house.html?
ex=1162530000&en=d36ee51eb3929fc1&ei=5070

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Dennis Wagner, Human trafficking’s profits spur horrors, The Arizona Republic (July 23, 2006)

http://www.azcentral.com/arizonarepublic/news/articles/0723drophouse-main2.html

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Gretchen Ruethling, Chicago Woman’s Stand Stirs Immigration Debate, New York Times (August 19, 2006)

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/08/19/us/19immigrant.html?
ex=1313640000&en=3b2b004bc850200a&ei=5088&partner=rssnyt&emc=rss

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Southern Poverty Law Center, "Deadly Force Brandishing insults and a gun, Roy Warden routinely threatens Latinos with death. Some observers fear the worst."
 

http://www.splcenter.org/intel/intelreport/article.jsp?pid=1142

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Stuart Anderson, The Multiplier Effect, International Educator (Summer 2004)

http://www.nfap.com/researchactivities/studies/TheMultiplierEffectNFAP.pdf

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Daniel Altman, Immigration Math: It’s A Long Story, New York Times (June 18, 2006)

http://be-think.typepad.com/bethink/files/NYTMsImmgrntMth.pdf

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Roger Lowenstein, The Immigration Equation, New York Times (July 9, 2006)

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/07/09/magazine/09IMM.html?ex
=1310097600&en=45962e550ceea8df&ei=5088&partner=rssnyt&emc=rss

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Eduardo Porter, Illegal Immigrants Are Bolstering Social Security With Billions, New York Times (April 5, 2005)

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/04/05/business/05immigration.html?ex
=1270353600&en=78c87ac4641dc383&ei=5090&partner=rssuserland

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Douglas S. Massey, The Wall That Keeps Illegal Workers In, New York Times (April 4, 2006)

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/04/04/opinion/04massey.html?ex
=1301803200&en=d7ba3fd6ef970a91&ei=5090&partner=rssuserland&emc=rss

45

Benjamin Johnson, Managing Immigration as a Resource, American Immigration Law Foundation Immigration Policy Center (July 18, 2006)

http://www.ailf.org/ipc/2006_july_perspective.shtml

46

Ted Olsen, Asylum vs. Assistance, Christianity Today (September 26, 2006)

http://www.christianitytoday.com/ct/2006/october/9.35.html

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Daphne Eviatar, Nightly Nativism, The Nation (August 28, 2006)

http://www.thenation.com/doc/20060828/eviatar

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Dan Bilefsky and Ian Fisher, Across Europe, Worries on Islam Spread to Center, New York Times (October 11, 2006)

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/10/11/world/europe/11muslims.html?ex
=1162530000&en=0e617b6f2276186a&ei=5070

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Southern Poverty Law Center, The Puppeteer: The organized anti-immigration ‘movement,’ increasingly in bed with racist hate groups, is dominated by one man, John Tanton (Summer 2002)

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Mark Potok, "Intelligence Report: Blood and Soil," Southern Poverty Law Center

http://www.splcenter.org/intel/intelreport/article.jsp?aid=659

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Mark Krikorian, Not Amnesty but Attrition, National Review (March 22, 2004)

http://www.cis.org/articles/2004/markoped032204.html

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Peter Brimelow, The Immigration Debate: Racism—Or Treason

http://www.vdare.com/pb/060528_unamerican.htm

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Peter Brimelow, Time To Rethink Immigration (II): Freeing America From The Immigration Gulag

http://www.vdare.com/pb/060605_gulag.htm

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Heather MacDonald, The Illegal Alien Crime Wave

http://www.city-journal.org/printable.php?id=1204

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Mark Tooley, Sanctuary Chic, The American Spectator (August 23, 2006)

http://www.spectator.org/dsp_article.asp?art_id=10259

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2006 State Legislation Related to Immigration: Enacted, Vetoed, and Pending Gubernatorial Action

http://www.ncsl.org/programs/immig/6ImmigEnactedLegis3.htm

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New York City Executive Order No. 41 (September 17, 2003)

http://www.friendsfw.org/Immigrant/NYC/NYC_eo41_091703.pdf

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Andorra Bruno, Ruth Ellen Wasem, Alison Siskin, Blas Nunez-Neto, Michael John Garcia, Stephen R. Vina, Margaret Mikyung Lee, Karma Ester, Immigration Legislation and Issues in the 109^th Congress, Congressional Research Service (September 21, 2006)

http://www.bibdaily.com/pdfs/CRS%20imm%20leg%20
issues%20in%20109thRL33125.pdf

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text of Comprehensive Immigration Reform Act of 2006 (S. 2611) (caution: very large file consisting of 796 .pdf format pages) as passed by the Senate

http://www.aila.org/content/default.aspx?bc=1019|6712|11536|19568

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 text of HR 4437, "Border Protection, Antiterrorism, and Illegal Immigration Control Act of 2005’’ as passed by the House of Representatives
 

http://www.aila.org/content/default.aspx?bc=1019|6712|11536|18675|18186

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Immigration Policy Center of the American Immigration Law Foundation

http://www.cirnow.org/content/en/religiousresolutions_092606.htm http://www.ailf.org/ipc/ipc_index.asp

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New American Opportunity Campaign

http://www.cirnow.org/

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Presbyterian Peace Fellowship

http://www.presbypeacefellowship.org/Immigration/

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Just Presbyterians

http://www.justpresbys.org/social_justice.htm

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Rev. Joan M. Maruskin, The Bible as the Ultimate Immigration Handbook: Written By, For, and About Migrants, Immigrants, Refugees, and Asylum Seekers

http://www.churchworldservice.org/Immigration/bible-as-handbook.html

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Blog of Jim Wallis

http://www.beliefnet.com/blogs/godspolitics/

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National Immigration Project of the National Lawyers Guild

http://www.nationalimmigrationproject.org/

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Immigration Daily

http://www.ilw.com/immigdaily/

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TRAC Immigration Project

http://trac.syr.edu/immigration/

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National Immigration Law Center

http://www.nilc.org/

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National Foundation for American Policy

http://www.nfap.com/

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National Network for Immigrant and Refugee Rights

http://www.nnirr.org/

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National Immigration Forum

http://www.immigrationforum.org/

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Center for Immigration Studies

http://www.cis.org/

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Bender’s Immigration Bulletin Daily Edition

http://www.bibdaily.com/

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US Conference of Catholic Bishops Migration & Refugee Policies

http://www.usccb.org/mrs/mrp.shtml

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Catholic campaign for immigration reform

http://www.justiceforimmigrants.org/