So as Obama navigates the ongoing AIG fallout and sells a budget plan that foresees sweeping health care and energy reform, Obama's schedule today raises another question: Can he handle immigration?

In their new book, “Hispanic Heresy: What is the Impact of America’s Largest Population of Immigrants?” two Texas Tech professors and one alum make arguments for common immigration misconceptions.  From their impact on the economy to whether or not immigrants should learn English, their theories search for the opportunities immigration brings to the U.S. WITHIN the so-called problems and challenges.  

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Check out the February 2009 issue of the Student Voices monthly online newsletter, “SV Top 5,” and see if your content was featured this month.  Comprehensive immigration reform (CIR) advocates are working hard and quickly to realize CIR by fall 2009.  And fortunately, their message is spreading quickly, and the ever-expanding network of supporters is uniting to make real change.

In light of justice and equality for all minorities, it's vital we stay abreast of issues not only affecting Latinos but other social groups. Most often, we are divided by color yet unified by the problems we face! Listen and read about the latest State of the Black Union symposium. How do the issues which Latinos and African-Americans overlap? Which approaches are taken toward solving or dealing with them? SPEAK UP! 

Attorney General Eric Holder: "Though this nation has proudly thought of itself as an ethnic melting pot, in things racial we have always been and continue to be, in too many ways, essentially a nation of cowards.

A federal law enforcement partnership program, which enables local law enforcement to act as immigration agents, and was originally designed to identify and deport only immigrants with serious felonies, will be examined for effectiveness in a congressional hearing scheduled for today.

Since the program has been implemented, many inconsistencies have been reported as well as unclear objectives, protocol, and procedures for the program.

As reported by, Latina Lista:

One of the best ways to broaden someone's horizons, a.k.a. expose them to situations outside their comfort zones, is through travel.

It is one of the reasons why students who have experienced life in another country are better prepared to view the world with an open mind. Yet, in these times, traveling may be too cost prohibitive for most students to afford — unless they win the "Destino: Latinoamericano" contest sponsored by Continental Airlines and Adelante! U.S. Education Leadership Fund.

Today, U.S. Representative Luis V. Gutierrez (D-IL) announced he will expand his five-week national tour—now visiting 16 U.S. cities—to document the harm caused to citizens across our nation in the absence of comprehensive immigration reform.

The Graduate School of Political Management at The George Washington University, a school of practical politics located in the heart of DC, is proud to announce the first annual The Undergraduate Political Achievement Fellowship Program!
 

Facebook and CNN will join together to offer Obama's primetime address to Congress streaming live tonight, connect here for details:http://www.cnn.com/live/

In a prime-time speech to Congress and millions watching at home, Obama will make his case Tuesday that much more has to be done to turn around the economy — a message he knows he must explain.