-- from CNN:

U.S. Education Secretary Arne Duncan said Saturday that he plans to recruit more African-American and Latino teachers in a bid to narrow achievement gaps among students.

African-American males make up less than 2 percent of teachers nationwide, Duncan told CNN, while African-American and Latino males -- combined -- represent roughly 3.5 percent of all U.S. teachers.

"That's not a number we can be proud of," Duncan said.

-- by Shankar Vedantam, The Washington Post:

The Obama administration is moving to release thousands of illegal immigrants detained at facilities across the country if the immigrants have a potential path to legal residency.

-- from Altamirano.org:

The Latin market promises to break records this year in sales as the overall market in 2010 in Latin America is making a recovery in technology sales.

-- by Frank Trejo, The Dallas Morning News:

When the morning of April 9, 2006, dawned, with its clear blue skies and warm sunshine, it unveiled the reality of a dramatic demographic shift that had been building in Dallas and North Texas for a decade. 

-- by Todd Spanger, The Detroit Free Press:

It may not be their most pressing concern but Michiganders overwhelmingly support Arizona's immigration law.

And they’d like to have one of their own.

-- from WiredLatinos.com:

-- from the Immigration Policy Center:

The Political and Economic Power of Immigrants, Latinos, and Asians in Texas.

Immigrants and their children are growing shares of Texas’s population and electorate.

• The foreign-born share of Texas’s population rose from 9.0% in 1990, to 13.9% in 2000, to 16.0% in 2008, according to the U.S. Census Bureau.  Texas was home to 3,887,224 immigrants in 2008, which is roughly the total population of Los Angeles, California.

• 31.4% of immigrants (or 1,220,063 people) in Texas were naturalized U.S. citizens in 2008—meaning that they are eligible to vote.

• 9.3% (or 899,841) of registered voters in Texas were “New Americans”—naturalized citizens or the U.S.-born children of immigrants who were raised during the current era of immigration from Latin America and Asia which began in 1965—according to an analysis of 2006 Census Bureau data by Rob Paral & Associates.

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-- by Julia Preston, The New York Times:

Immigration enforcement officials have started to cancel the deportations of thousands of immigrants they have detained, a policy they said would pare huge case backlogs in the immigration courts. 

-- by Haya El Nasser and Paul Overberg, USA Today:

The kindergarten class of 2010-11 is less white, less black, more Asian and much more Hispanic than in 2000, reflecting the nation's rapid racial and ethnic transformation.

The profile of the 4 million children starting kindergarten reveals the startling changes the USA has undergone the past decade and offers a glimpse of its future. In this year's class, for example, about one out of four 5-year-olds will be Hispanic. Most of today's kindergartners will graduate from high school in 2024.

More Hispanic children are likely in the next generation because the number of Hispanic girls entering childbearing years is up more than 30% this decade, says Kenneth Johnson, demographer at the University of New Hampshire's Carsey Institute. "It's only the beginning."

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-- by Suzy Khimm, The Washington Post:

Embroiled in the ongoing immigration debate, a growing number of states and municipalities are rushing to embrace E-Verify, a federally created system that determines whether potential employees are legally permitted to work in the U.S. About 13 states, along with a dozen or so municipalities, have made the system mandatory for some or most businesses. Now even more states are trying to climb on board with the system, which verifies new hires with databases from the Social Security Administration and Department of Homeland Security.