Voxxi—A dash of diversity for the Obama cabinet
Eight of Obama's first-term Cabinet members are staying for now, including Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius and Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano, and five months after his re-election he's still filling openings. That's left parts of his political coalition still waiting for high-level representation. Read more here…
The Wall Street Journal— Senate Panel Backs Perez as Labor Nominee
The Senate labor committee on Thursday approved Tom Perez’s nomination to be U.S. labor secretary, splitting along party lines as it sent the nomination to the full Senate, where Mr. Perez faces further challenges. Read more here…
The Huffington Post— Leon Panetta and Marc Morial Join the Board of Corinthian, For-Profit College With Troubling Record
Corinthian Colleges announced today that Leon Panetta, until recently the U.S. Secretary of Defense, and Marc Morial, President and CEO of the National Urban League, have joined the for-profit college company's board of directors. In a field marked by ripoffs of students and taxpayers, Corinthian, which operates under the school names Everest, Heald, and Wyotech, has one of the worst records of all. The willingness of these two men to lend their credibility to Corinthian, which feeds off taxpayer money and often leaves its students worse off than when they started, is dismaying, to say the least. Read more here…
The Washington Post— Obama prods liberals to give-and-take on Senate immigration bill
President Obama is warning liberal supporters that their push to make changes in a comprehensive immigration bill could jeopardize the strategy of Senate leaders, who are aiming to win up to 70 votes for the measure. Read more here…
The Huffington Post—Jay Carney: Immigration Bill Leaves Out LGBT Couples, But 'Overall' Keeps With Principles
White House press secretary Jay Carney said Thursday that the president supports LGBT inclusion in immigration reform, but wouldn't reject a bill just because same-sex couples are left out. Read more here…
The Washington Post—Obama's Cabinet nearly complete, if not completely diverse
And then there was one. Now that President Obama has announced Penny Pritzker as his pick for commerce secretary and Michael Froman for U.S. trade representative, there's only a single, lonely vacant slot left in the second-term Cabinet — the Cabinet-rank job of administrator of the Small Business Administration. Read more here…
The New York Times—Once Denounced, but Now a Force in Immigration Push
For two decades, Cecilia Muñoz was a fiery immigration rights lobbyist who denounced deportations, demanded change in Congress and once wrote of "that hollow place that outrage carves in your soul." When she was invited to a White House briefing in 1997 on immigration, Ms. Muñoz, who was born in Detroit, was furious after staff members asked twice if she was an American citizen. Read more here…
The Associated Press—Ahead Of Trip To Mexico And Costa Rica, Obama Meets With Latino Leaders
President Barack Obama has met with Latino leaders ahead of an upcoming trip to Mexico and Costa Rica. Obama met Monday at the White House with leaders from National Council of La Raza, the National Hispanic Council on Aging and the League of United Latin American Citizens, plus seven other groups. The White House says they discussed economic interests the U.S. shares with Latin American nations, plus progress on poverty and inequality. Read more here…
The Miami Herald—At MDC's graduation: 13,000 students received diplomas, one received a marriage proposal
More than 13,000 students graduated Saturday from Miami-Dade College , including Andrea Nicole Castillo , who died in a Hialeah police-involved car crash last year.
Andrea Castillo , daughter of Miami-Dade School Board member Susie Castillo , finished her associate degree in Miami-Dade College before her death and was pursuing a career in education. With tears in their eyes, her mother, grandmother, brother and boyfriend went up on stage to receive her diploma. Read more here…
ABC/Univision—Call Immigration Chuck Schumer's Legacy-Defining Issue
Chuck Schumer set his alarm clock early each morning to fly back to Washington D.C. from New York in late 1986. At the Capitol, he was immersed in intense negotiations over a major immigration reform bill. In New York, his wife was nine months pregnant. Read more here…
Voxxi— A Dreamer fights to stop the deportation of her father
During this time last year, Reyna Montoya was one of the handful of undocumented students who were graduating from Arizona State University. Now, a year later, the 22-year-old Dreamer is fighting to stop the deportation of her father, Mario Montoya. Read more here…
ABC/Univison—Why Are Social Security Cards Still Easy To Fake?
Improving Social Security cards -- that's one of the things that an immigration bill in the Senate aims to do. There are a bunch of ways you could try to accomplish this, but one controversial option has been around for decades and has never really gathered much momentum. Create a secure card using "biometric" data. Read more here…
The New York Times—For First Time on Record, Black Voting Rate Outpaced Rate for Whites in 2012
The turnout rate of black voters surpassed the rate for whites for the first time on record in 2012, as more black voters went to the polls than in 2008 and fewer whites did, according to a Census Bureau report released Wednesday. The survey also found that Hispanics and Asians continue to turn out at much lower rates than other groups, and that women turn out at higher rates than men. The increase in black turnout was driven in significant part by more votes from black women. Read more here…
NBC Latino— Heritage Immigration study co-author: Latinos incapable of assimilating like Irish, Sicilians
Another day, another series of head-scratching comments surfacing from Jason Richwine, co-author of a controversial immigration study, which sought to calculate the cost of undocumented immigrants becoming citizens with immigration reform legislation pending. Read more here..
Fox News Latino—Reemerging As The Face Of Immigration
White House domestic policy adviser Cecilia Munoz is re-emerging from her recent low profile to become the face of President Obama's push for immigration reform.2012
Cecilia Muñoz, who in her pre-White House life was one of the most vocal and visible advocates for immigration reform, suddenly reappeared last week after months in relative obscurity. The reason? Read more here…
The Huffington Post—Latino Voters Voice Concern Over Budget Cuts That Hurt Families
Why is it so difficult for our leaders on Capitol Hill to grasp the concept that government policies should not harm children and families? Another month has gone by and still Congress refuses to do anything to replace the sequester -- the harmful budget cuts that are decimating health care, housing, and education programs across this nation. Read more here…
KTLK-AM—Immigration Supporters Unite In L.A. And Across The Nation
Thousands will take to the streets of downtown Los Angeles Wednesday to participate in May Day protests to end immigrant deportations. Rallies that will cause traffic headaches and change bus routes are planned throughout the day, the Los Angeles Police Department said. May Day started as a day for labor rights, but in recent years, it has transformed into a protest for immigration laws. Read more here…
La Opinión—Grupos apoyan a dominicano para gabinete de Obama
Organizaciones hispanas salieron en defensa de Thomas Pérez ayer. El único candidato latino al gabinete del presidente Barack Obama, ha enfrentado una fuerte oposición en el Congreso. Hoy, el Comité de Trabajo, Educación, Salud y Pensiones (HELP) votará su confirmación. Read more here…
Univision—A toda máquina campañas por la reforma migratoria con ciudadanía
Lluvia de llamados y mensajes al Congreso para que ambas cámaras aprueben cuanto antes una vía de legalización para indocumentados
Políticos, empresarios, cantantes, actores y hombres de negocios, entre otros, se suman cada día a la campara digital iMarch para presionar al Congreso que apruebe una reforma migratoria que incluya una vía de legalización para millones de inmigrantes indocumentados. Read more here…
Telemundo—Consejo nacional de la Raza sobre Reforma Migratoria [Video]
Entrevista a Janet Murguia, presidenta del Consejo Nacional de la Raza, sobre las negociaciones para la conformación de la propuesta legislativa para una reforma migratoria. Read more here…
Univision—Comité Judicial del Senado aprobó plan de reforma migratoria del Grupo de los Ocho
El Comité Judicial del Senado aprobó el martes por 13 votos a favor y cinco en contra el plan de reforma migratoria del Grupo de los Ocho.El proyecto de ley S. 744 fue entregado al Comité la segunda semana de abril y recibió más de 300 enmiendas, la mayoría dirigidas a modificar el camino a la ciudadanía para millones de inmigrantes indocumentados. Read more here…
Voz de América— Reforma migratoria “no se está dilatando”
Las audiencias sobre la reforma migratoria en el comité judicial del Senado se retomaron nuevamente este jueves y se discutieron las enmiendas que contemplan las nuevas visas de trabajo, que incluye las visas W y W-2 para trabajadores agrícolas, así como la implementación del programa de verificación de empleo conocido como “E-Verify”. Read more here…
Stateline (Pew Charitable Trusts)—States that skip Medicaid expansion may favor new immigrants over US citizens
The Republican governors who decline to expand Medicaid under the Affordable Care Act may give not-yet-naturalized immigrants a benefit that American citizens in their states can't get. Specifically, those immigrants may be able to purchase federally subsidized health insurance that will be unavailable to the poorest American citizens. Read more here…
Politic365—Day Without Sugar Challenges Latino Eating Habits but not Food Advertising
As reported by KUHF, Arte Público Press, a publishing house known for promoting Latino authors and maintaining Latinos' literary history, is sponsoring aDay Without Sugar, challenging Latino children to change their eating habits for just one day. The purpose is to make Latino kids aware of just how much sugar is in their diets, not just in the obvious places like soda but also in the less obvious, non sweet snack foods like spicy hot snacks. Read more here…
The Texas Observer—Senate Passes Bill Cutting High School Tests, Creating New Diploma Paths
The Senate finally passed House Bill 5, the session’s big education bill, on Monday afternoon after weeks of waiting and a last-minute delay over the weekend. The bill limits the number of end-of-course exams required in high school and alters high school graduation plans to emphasize career skills. Read more here…
Voxxi—Latino unemployment rate hits four-year low, but it's not all good news
The Latino unemployment rate reached 9.0 in April, trailing behind the national unemployment rate of 7.5 percent. The U.S. employment report released Friday shows the Latino unemployment rate in April dropped to 9.0 percent, down from 9.2 in March. Read more here…
Voxxi—Immigration bill denies undocumented immigrants access to healthcare
The notion of citizenship offers a future of opportunity for 11 million undocumented immigrants, 81 percent of which are of Latino origin. Bittersweet is exactly what leading minority rights groups are feeling these days regarding Washington's major immigration reform discussion. Read more here…
Yahoo! News—What Services Should Immigrants Get?
What are immigrants in the United States entitled to? Tax breaks? Health care? Disability insurance? Food stamps? As the Senate Judiciary Committee wades through a major immigration bill, it is clear that there is no consensus, even among the bill's sponsors, about how to treat the immigrants who would become legal residents under the legislation. Read more here…