Immigration reform activists are still holding protests and campaigning for change, but the U.S. government is so preoccupied with Syria that Congress is expected to postpone any legal reforms to the end of 2013.
Obama called the situation in Syria "clearly a big event of grave concern" and said he hopes the Syrian government will allow a deeper investigation into the recent alleged chemical weapon attack in Damascus that killed more than 1,300 people.
Florida Senator Marco Rubio is warning fellow conservatives that the bipartisan immigration reform bill currently being debated in Congress is far better than the alternative: letting President Obama legalize undocumented immigrants by executive order.
President Obama urged Californians, particularly young people and Hispanics, to sign up for health insurance, now that Obamacare has lowered rates to more affordable levels.
According to the U.S. Department of Commerce, 31.9 percent of Hispanics were attending college in 2010, a mighty leap upward from the 23.5 percent enrolled in 2003. But despite higher college enrollment, degree completion remains a problem, and Hispanics lag behind other minority groups in America by many educational metrics. A big source of the problem, some argue, is Early Childhood Education (ECE), or a lack thereof.
