At The Atlantic, Michael Wear, formerly part of Obama’s faith team, examines the evangelical push for immigration reform. Evangelicals, who make up about one-quarter of the American population, find themselves aligning with Democrats on immigration reform, nudging their GOP allies into action, according to Wear. “At a time when many believe the influence of faith is waning in American life, the White House’s top second-term legislative priorities — immigration reform, gun control, climate-change legislation, nuclear non-proliferation — all depend on an active religious lobby,” Wear writes. “On immigration progressives and Democratic strategists embrace, to a striking degree, the central role evangelicals will have to play in any successful attempt at reform.”