<p><strong>The College Board </strong></p>
<p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; With students gearing up to apply to colleges this fall, it struck me that despite minimal guidance — from the types of courses to the exams we should have taken — my four siblings and I all went to college. Yet a lack of guidance about the college-going process often sabotages academic opportunities for many students.</p>

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Editorial:

   No matter how you look at the elections on Tuesday, Latinos/Hispanics played a huge role. While the rest of the country was going red –Republican – the states of California, Nevada, and Colorado bucked the national trend and voted Democratic. Latino votes saved Harry Reid with a 9-1 Latino voter margin in a tough Senate race in Nevada. Senator Michael Bennet of Colorado defeated conservative Tom Tancredo in his bid for governor, with Hispanics accounting for 6 percent of the overall vote.

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<p>&nbsp;&nbsp; When you make police into immigration agents, it destroys trust in immigrant communities and makes everyone less safe.</p>
<p>&nbsp;&nbsp; The controversial Secure Communities program, which seeks to require all local police departments to share fingerprints with the Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agency, makes the lives of some domestic violence victims, in particular, anything but secure.</p>