'What Constitutes A Legally-Justifiable Reason To Even Ask Someone About Their Status?'

Judy Lubin, 06/28/12

Founder, LeadingVoices.org; President, Public Square Communications

Racism has clearly emerged as a significant factor underlying opposition to the Affordable Care Act and must be a part of any honest attempt at understanding how some Americans formed opinions about it.

Wendy Kopp, 06/27/12

CEO & Founder, Teach For America, and CEO & Co-founder, Teach For All

In the past two years, Teach For America has nearly doubled the number of African American corps members from 390 to 720, and has increased the number of Latino corps members from 300 to 550.

Roberto Lovato, 06/27/12

Writer

Also lost in the reporting on the Supreme Court decision, is the central political fact about Arizona's racial profiling law: both Democrats and Republicans, both Barack Obama and Jan Brewer, made the 'papers, please' provisions of SB-1070 possible.

Carlos Marquez, 06/27/12

Western Deputy Political Director for the Gay & Lesbian Victory Fund

For Colorado's LGBT families, the prospect of doubling Colorado's LGBT representation in the legislature with an openly gay Speaker at the helm can restore hope that same-sex relationship recognition legislation will pass in the next session.

Hector Villagra, 06/27/12

Executive Director, ACLU of Southern California

This decision has posed a question for states around the country: do they want to follow the Arizona example? Or do they want to follow a different path?

Elisabeth Braw, 06/28/12

Senior Reporter, Metro International

For the first time ever, a woman could win Mexico's presidential election. Recently Vázquez Mota added an unexpected twist to the campaign by asking her female followers to withhold "hanky panky" until their husbands agree to vote.

Adrianna Quintero, 06/27/12

Director Voces Verdes, La Onda Verde de NRDC

For many Latinos in these seriously impacted parts of the country and for many who work outside in the heat or live in areas that don't meet clean air rules and are struggling under healthcare costs, the risks of climate change are real.

Ben Hecht, 06/26/12

CEO Living Cities

Technology is not a panacea, only a means to an end. Increasing access to broadband and the Internet are an important first step, but we also need to find better ways of applying this technology to accelerate progress and prosperity for all.

Felipe Matos, 06/26/12

Get Equal Field Director

Just like a week ago when President Obama showed Latino voters that he was serious about keeping his promises, this is the president's chance to show the LGBT community the same thing.

Irene Monroe, 06/26/12

Native of Brooklyn, graduate of Wellesley College and Union Theological Seminary at Columbia

Those brown and black LGBTQ people have been bleached from the written history of that night. Many LGBTQ blacks and Latinos argue that one of the reasons for the gulf between whites and themselves is the fact that the dominant queer community rewrote the narrative of Stonewall.

Robert Reich, 06/26/12

Chancellor's Professor of Public Policy, University of California at Berkeley; Author, 'Beyond Outrage'

When regressives talk about "preserving and protecting" the nation, be warned: They mean securing our borders, not securing our society. Within those borders, each of us is on our own. They don't want a government that actively works for all our citizens.

Jeff Danziger, 06/26/12

Political cartoonist syndicated by the NYTimes worldwide

Brian J. Siebel, 06/26/12

Blogger at OpposeMitt.com

All told, instead of the 800,000 immigrants covered by President Obama's order, Mitt Romney's plan might cover a few thousand immigrants, only a small portion of whom might be Latino.

Ediberto Roman, 06/26/12

Professor of Law, Florida International University

As I predicted several weeks ago, SB 1070 has been left essentially toothless. While it may require state law enforcement to make immigration status determinations, there isn't much that the state can do with the determinations once made.

Kristian Ramos, 06/25/12

Policy Director, Hispanic Demographics, Immigration NDN

Romney's speech at the National Association of Latino Elected Official's (NALEO) conference had been billed as an opportunity for a candidate, who is struggling to connect with Hispanic voters, to re-orient his message to this core voting block. He did not.

Voto Latino, 06/25/12

Blog Series

The authors of SB1070 hoped to make the life of a migrant so unpleasant that it would cause a mass self-deportation movement. Instead it has caused the people to become inspired, informed and involved. Not only are we not leaving, were fighting!

Aggie R. Hoffman, 06/23/12

Lawyer, Certified Specialist in U.S. Immigration and Nationality Law

So, why was such fanfare made of this two year provision? Was it the EAD? Was this election year politics? Is this a peace offering by President Obama for not tackling promised immigration reform during his first two years in office?