On April 10, the national day of action for immigration reform, labor leader Maria Elena Durazo was outspoken in her critique of U.S. Senator Dianne Feinstein.

Who was this Joaquin, and why is he the subject of conversation, especially amongst immigrant rights advocates who ask ourselves if we could have done something to prevent his suicide? The answers do not come easily.

Talk of resignation, retraction, and silly questioning of CHIRLA's intentions and values is of lesser importance to the immigrant community than proactive, timely, and common-sense solutions.

If there were any doubts the administration is feeling the heat over their unstated approval of more than a million deportations, none exist now.

Although Obama's political advisors are telling the president he has Latinos in the bag in 2012, the jury is out deliberating whether or not he means it when he says he will fight the fight with us on immigration reform.

Now that President Obama has met with influential Latinos, legislators, and community advocates, he should request a meeting with US-citizen families who live with unauthorized immigrant loved ones.

Not much and yet all has changed since the first major anti-immigrant legislation in a quarter of a century became law one year ago.

Americans would be surprised to know that our immigration laws are unfairly, unjustly, and inconsistently enforced. And it's not just unauthorized immigrants that suffer the consequences.

The president has an opportunity, make that a responsibility, to tell the American people that reforming our nation's broken immigration system is not an issue that concerns only those on the right or the left, but one that concerns us all.

The mood in my household of war refugees was subdued immediately after we heard of the shooting. Our thoughts went back to our years living in El Salvador during the civil war.

While the opposition cries out that the DREAM Act is a kind of back door amnesty for undocumented workers, it is actually a sensible, rational strategy to meet America's economic and social needs.