Evangelicals launch $250,000 immigration campaign

c. 2013 USA Today

(RNS) During the last attempt to overhaul the nation’s immigration laws in 2007, the Southern Baptist Convention never fully embraced a bipartisan bill that died in the face of conservative opposition.

But in a sign of how differently the 2013 immigration debate is playing out, the convention is joining other evangelical organizations in a $250,000 media blitz to push members of Congress to pass a bill.