The Ethics of Taking Flight
by Roy Beck
June 2006
"The courageous heroes on the world scene are not those men and women in poor countries who have the energy, the intelligence, and the skills to escape to a rich country but rather those remaining with their people. Rather than focus on improving conditions for themselves and their families by emigrating, they strive to raise the conditions for whole communities."

Sorting Through Humanitarian Clashes In Immigration
by Roy Beck
The Social Contract
1997 National Annual Conference on Applied Ethics
Also presented in numerous other forums, including Dartmouth College Rockefeller Lectures, Centre College and the Women's National Democratic Club. Examines ethical differences between individual-based and community-based approaches to immigration and the role of borders in allowing people to have a self-determining democratic community.

Spiritual Issues in the Immigration Debate
by Rabbi Marc Gellman
Newsweek; May 21, 2006
"The hot issue of immigration, both legal and illegal, once again wraps an essentially spiritual issue in a thin and distracting political wrapper.  The essential question is this: what is the spiritual significance of the state?"

Going to Extremes
Andrew J. Cherlin, Dept. of Sociology, Johns Hopkins University
NumbersUSA.com is committed to accuracy and context in the use of statistics about U.S. population growth and its causes. We follow a philosophy of avoiding projections based on the lower or higher extremes of possibility as well as extreme interpretations. We feel this address to the Population Association of America advances some ideas worth keeping in mind.

Planning for a Livable Future: A Clash of Sacred Values
by Meredith Burke
San Francisco Examiner
Essay on March 4, 1996, on the inherent incompatibility of two cherished American images about their country's values. It deals with the clash between the ideal of a country in which masses of oppressed people can seek refuge and the ideal of a country in which natural beauty and wildlife are abundantly preserved for the healthful benefit of the inhabitants of the country.

The 'Sojourner' Argument: Scripture texts often misused by religious communities to advocate high immigration
by Rev. Ed Childress
The Bible is filled with stories about people who were called (or forced) to travel from their homeland for various reasons. These people were called sojourners. What are the Biblical references to the "sojourner"? How are they relevant to the issue of immigration today.

Jewish Attitudes Toward Immigration
by Edward Levy
The Social Contract
A Jewish professor's winding and fascinating exploration of the different forms of American Jewish thought about immigration issues.

The Catholic Church's War on Borders
The Catholic Hierarchy and Immigration
Boundless
The Pope's Visit: Is Mass Immigration A Moral Imperative
by David Simcox
The Social Contract
A Catholic's reviews of his church's theology of immigration.

A New Decalogue For An Increasingly Crowded World
by Dr. John Tanton
The Social Contract
A short course on the history of immigration and ethical ramifications for our day. This article ends with a Decalogue of principles for the ethical considerations of immigration policy worldwide.

Ten Principles of Immigration
by John Miano, Programmers Guild