A University of North Carolina student's attempts to disrupt and silence former representative Tom Tancredo, who had been invited by a campus group to speak about illegal immigration, may cost the student a highly respected scholarship. Haley Koch, of Cabin John, MD, was charged with misdemeanor disorderly conduct April 23, nine days after she and another young woman disrupted an event sponsored by the student group Youth for Western Civilization. The action could cost her a Morehead-Cain Foundation scholarship worth about $140,000. Read the whole story from The News & Observer here.

With more than one million immigrants becoming U.S. citizens last year, California's political landscape will experience a major shift. These new citizens are reshaping California's electorate and are likely to reorder the state's policy priorities, some political analysts predict. Several polls show that Latinos and Asians are more supportive than whites of public investments and broad services, even if they require higher taxes. Read Teresa Watanabe's detailed article in today's LA Times.

In President Barack Obama's proposed fiscal 2010 budget, $400 million in funding for the State Criminal Alien Assistance Program, or SCAAP, would be eliminated. The program partially subsidizes the cost of housing criminal illegal immigrants, based on the population of illegal immigrants in state and local jails. Many local enforcement organizations are saying that this is exactly the wrong time to reduce or scrap this program. What do you think? Read the full article here.