ELCA NEWS SERVICE July 28, 2010 ELCA Presiding Bishop Calls for Immigration Reform in Letter to Obama 10-210-MRC CHICAGO (ELCA) -- If Congress does not pass comprehensive immigration reform soon, state legislators and local governments will continue to take immigration policy into their own hands, wrote the Rev. Mark S. Hanson, presiding bishop of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (ELCA), in a July 23 letter to U.S. President Barack Obama. More http://www.elca.org/News/Releases.asp?a=4597 For information contact: John Brooks, Director (773) 380-2958 or [log in to unmask] http://www.elca.org/news Twitter: http://twitter.com/elcanews