Lee Hernandez

Entertainment Editor and On-Camera Personality

I'm glad I gave Devious Maids a chance, because if I hadn't, I'd be missing out on a great show.

Eric Rodriguez

Vice President, National Council of La Raza

What politicians do today and the tone of their comments, particularly on immigration reform, will leave an indelible mark in the minds of Latino voters and the young people who will join the electorate in the years to come.

Ligia Guallpa and Gonzalo Mercado

As one group of day laborers showed up to Far Rockaway, one of the poorest and hardest hit areas in New York, organizers of an emergency food drive thought they were looking for handouts.

Paromita Shah

Associate Director, National Immigration Project

As the Senate debates the immigration bill that has been legislated and lauded by both Republicans and Democrats alike, Rep. Trey Gowdy's extreme bill exposes just how out of touch he is with America.

Earl Ofari Hutchinson

Author and political analyst

The irony is that there was a brief moment a decade ago that the GOP seemed to get it right on immigration reform.

Nathalie Cely

Ambassador of Ecuador to the United States

The rose industry in Ecuador provides good paying jobs for thousands of poor rural women-many of whom are heads of households. Those jobs are draining the drug trade of recruits, which in turn helps keeps drugs off the streets of the U.S.

Ryan Campbell

Editor at DRM Capitol Group, Media Manager @DRMAction

LGBT DREAMers explained how they felt that they came out of the closet twice: their friends that were not LGBT would treat them differently and make nervous jokes about them being gay, while their LGBT friends would often be similarly uncomfortable and insensitive about them being undocumented.

Angie Junck

Supervising attorney

Under these provisions, youth of color will be unfairly and disproportionately impacted by this amendment because of how they look or dress, and where they live.

Bryan Elliott

CEO, GoodBrain Digital Studios

Cesar Millan is back, wiser and stronger than before with a renewed sense of purpose, a new TV show and a sprawling campus ranch in the heart of LA teaching humans (not dogs) how to be pack leaders and take control of their lives -- and dogs.

Michael A. Hardy

General Counsel/EVP, National Action Network

We Americans can always find ways to make the simplest things very complicated and difficult. So, it is no surprise to watch as the United States Senate tries to prevent itself from becoming bogged down with regard to immigration reform.

Clarissa Martinez De Castro

Director, Immigration and National Campaigns at the National Council of La Raza

We believe that the Republican Party still has a chance at redemption with our community, but first they must stop treating us like criminals.

Dedrick Muhammad

Senior Director of Economic Programs, NAACP

Predatory mortgage lenders aren't the only ones under fire for racial targeting -- the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau is now probing auto lenders for allegedly discriminating against Blacks and Latinos.

Jose Antonio Tijerino

President and CEO of the Hispanic Heritage Foundation

After researching this humble servant leader, I better understood his poignant question to me at the end of our meeting: "How can I help you?" Sam Beard has made a career out of asking that question.

Gordon Whitman

Deputy Director, PICO National Network

Immigration reform is a big plus for the economy: The reason why immigration reform lowers the deficit by so much is that immigrants who no longer have to work under the table will earn more money and pay hundreds of billions of dollars more in federal taxes.

David Bier

Policy Analyst, Competitive Enterprise Institute

When legislators and regulators begin to discover the possibilities created by E-Verify, the end-product ultimately may be what few people who supported the original version envisioned.

Viviana Hurtado

Host, Hispanic Business Today on NBC; blogger-in-chief, The Wise Latina Club, former ABC News correspondent

It is true that elections are tight and every vote counts. But does finding a few bad ballots trump the constitutionally protected right of the 30,000 Arizonans who were denied theirs or the millions of others living in the states and counties covered by the Voting Rights Act?

Virginia Sanchez-Korrol

Historian & Professor Emerita, CUNY-Brooklyn College

The call for action to restore the irreplaceable Byzantine Revival artwork and Romanesque Revival architecture of St. Anselm's Roman Catholic Church in the South Bronx must not go unheeded.