Christian Right Leads on Immigration

President Obama may find some strange company as the White House begins its push for immigration reform: the religious right. "There was this rhetoric in the last immigration debate that was, frankly, harsh," says the law school dean at the late Jerry Falwell’s university "We need to understand that we are still a nation of immigrants, and we need to bring people out of the shadows and make them legal." Dan Gilgoff reports at U.S. News & World Report that some conservative activists are now citing the Bible as reason to be kind to foreigners and that faith offers lessons for forgiveness and opening a path to citizenship for illegal immigrants.