Commentary

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<p>&nbsp;&nbsp; House Speaker John Boehner’s recent selection of Rep. Elton Gallegly of California over Rep. Steve King of Iowa to head the Judiciary Committee’s immigration subcommittee is one step closer to the kind of reform for which past administrations, including those of former Presidents George W. Bush, Bill Clinton and Ronald Reagan, had long called.</p>

<p><strong>Center for American Progress</strong></p>
<p>&nbsp;&nbsp; Last month, at least 12 Planned Parenthood health centers in five states and the District of Columbia were visited by men claiming to be sex traffickers and seeking information about how Planned Parenthood could provide services to minors who were part of a sex-trafficking ring.</p>

<p><strong><a href="http://http://www.beyondchron.org/news/">Beyond Chron</a></strong></p>

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<p>&nbsp;&nbsp; Sometimes the most important lessons learned at school don’t come from a classroom.</p>
<p>&nbsp;&nbsp; They come from how a school reacts to ugly incidents of bias and prejudice. When a principal learns that nasty slurs are being used in the school or that students are being bullied because of their race or ethnicity, it can be tempting to deny it.</p>
<p>&nbsp;&nbsp; It can be tempting to resort to the old refrain, “That doesn’t happen at our school.”</p>

<p><strong>New America Media</strong></p>
<p>&nbsp;&nbsp; Yesterday, while I was having dinner with some friends, one of them got a call on his cell phone from another friend, saying that his father had been kidnapped and murdered in the state of Guerrero…</p>

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<p>&nbsp;&nbsp; Reality sometimes comes as a slap awakening the mind forcing a state of awareness. Such was the case when through an exchange of e-mails from a successful aeronautical engineer and community leader who on the surface seemed to be justifiably concerned about illegal immigration, he whopped me with the reality that the issue is not about illegal immigration rather about a growing numbers of certain Hispanics in the U.S.</p>

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<p>&nbsp;&nbsp; If there is a silver lining in California Governor Jerry Brown’s latest budget proposal, it is the recognition that we cannot realign state services down to county and local governments or bridge the state’s almost $26 billion budget deficit without sufficient revenues.</p>