Patricia Guadalupe Columnist

The leadership of the Senate Sonia Sotomayor has decided to begin the hearings on the nomination of the jueza to the Supreme Court of the country on July 13, saying that they hope to end and vote before the congressional recess in August. His nomination first will be considered by the Judicial Committee, then by the Plenary meeting of the Senate. Sotomayor keeps on visiting senators still with plaster after the ankle fractures. The criticism in his against enough diminished han since they were presenting boxes and boxes on his judicial opinions and none has been controversial. A few comments that it was making several years ago in the faculty of laws of the University of California, taken out of context, it is the only thing that his critics have. Of course they will return when the hearings begin, but not with the same fury of earlier. Let's wait.

The shooting in the Museum of the Holocaust only a few days ago makes us remember that still there exist many racist people who does not accept persons of other races, for more intelligent and good that they are. And there are the people who attacks others simply because they do not love women, blacks, Hispanics, Asians, Jews, Muslims, between others, in importance positions. There are even those who do not want them for anything. Whenever raisin is necessary to scream to the sky and to remind him to these racist and ignorant people that we do not go away nowhere

Meanwhile, a meeting that it was going to carry out last week with the president Obama and groups in favor of a migratory reform will realize the next week in the White House. It is supposed that the approach is to discuss how moving forward the topic, and let's hope that in the meeting the people of the Congress should appear, because there it is where it has to be the principal discussion. The president Obama can say – and he has said that is in favor of a migratory reform, but it has the federal Congress to put it in the calendar.

Meanwhile, an organization that advocates the immigrants, America's Voice, has inaugurated a page in the Internet in Spanish dedicated in exclusive to matters of immigration, which includes the opportunity so that the public takes part. An ex-journalist recognized his years of covering immigration, Maribel Hastings, of the newspaper Opinion, handles the website. Go to maribelhastings.com for major information and to take part in the debate on this important topic.

And speaking about another important topic, groups of legislators who represent minorities have sent a letter to the president Obama saying to him that any legislation on a reform to the health system needs programs to assure major access to the medical care for Hispanics and other minorities, or they will not support it. The groups ask for major medical information in other languages for persons who do not speak English (and it includes that any more persons in the field of health with workmanship in other languages) and any more studies on illnesses that they affect to minority groups with major frequency than Anglo-Saxons, like the diabetes.

” Believe me, a legislation on health that does not include those aspects is not going to go to any side”, said conferee Nydia Velázquez, the president of the group of Hispanic conferees.