Meet the Latino in Charge of Outlining Obama's Immigration Policy

Its fitting that Mariano-Florentino Cuéllar grew up in Calexico, the California town whose name is a combination of California and Mexico.  As a leader of President-elect Barack Obama’s task force on immigration, Cuéllar can certainly use some transcultural sensitivity.

Cuéllar, a law professor at Stanford University, has been named one of the co-heads of the Obama transition’s Immigration Policy Working Group.  The transition’s web site says, he is in charge of “working on a plan to implement the President-elect’s commitments to fix the immigration system through legislative and executive actions that promote prosperity, enhance our security, strengthen families, and advance the rule of law.â€Â�

Cuéllar has called the current immigration situation in the U.S. “a humanitarian crisis that we’ve ignored� and one that deserves an appropriate response, Spanish wire Agencia EFE reported.