<p><strong>San Diego</strong><strong> Indy Media</strong></p>

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<p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Someone I know is struggling to talk with her 12-year-old son about sex.&nbsp;</p>
<p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Someone I know has a hard time using the word “penis” with his 5- and 7-year-old sons.</p>
<p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; And someone I know panicked and stuttered when her 6-year-old daughter asked how babies get inside a woman’s tummy.&nbsp;</p>

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<p>&nbsp;&nbsp; An electrified fence. On the border. Designed to kill people. Along with “real guns with real bullets.”</p>
<p>&nbsp;&nbsp; This is the immigration “plan” recently proposed by Republican presidential candidate Herman Cain.</p>
<p>&nbsp;&nbsp; And he’s one of his party’s frontrunners.</p>

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<p><strong>Birmingham</strong><strong>, Alabama</strong> – Illinois congressman Luis Gutiérrez has always said that the fight for immigration reform is a civil-rights issue for the immigrant community in the United States.</p>

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<p>&nbsp;&nbsp; Earlier this month, the President’s jobs bill failed in the Senate. Now the White House intends to break up the bill and gin up sufficient Republican support to pass key pieces. “We will now work with Senator Reid to make sure that the individual proposals in this jobs bill get a vote as soon as possible,” said President Obama in a statement released shortly after the Senate vote.</p>