Bill Posey (R-Fla.), Francisco Canseco (R-Texas), Mario Diaz-Balart (R-Fla.), Ruben Hinojosa (D-Texas) and Gregory Meeks (D-NY).
Quinones-Hinojosa was born there, and by age 5, he was working at his father's gas station.
The brain clearly showed itself as Quinones-Hinojosa's destiny one Friday night in medical school when the hospital was near-empty.
At Berkeley on a scholarship, Quinones-Hinojosa developed a passion for the scientific method.
The life of Alfredo Quinones-Hinojosa, a former illegal immigrant, may sound like a movie script, but it is no fiction.
The funds instead will be distributed to organizations that provide credit and housing counseling in minority communities, Ms. Hinojosa said.
The U.S. Justice Department is investigating the Tulsa shootings to determine if federal civil rights were violated, said spokeswoman Xochitl Hinojosa.
Michael Hinojosa, superintendent at Dallas Independent School District, said the federal money could offset some of the cuts he is considering.
Instead, he lengthened his name to Alfredo Quinones-Hinojosa, honoring his mother's family.
The group spoke with host Maria Hinojosa about its debut album Asuncion, which ended up with a warm Latin tinge to it.
Quinones-Hinojosa says he owes so much of his success to the many people who have extended a hand to him throughout his life.
Quinones-Hinojosa spent two years at San Joaquin Delta College, taking classes during the day and continuing work for California Railcar Repair in the afternoon.
Quinones-Hinojosa continued his schooling and became a teacher by the time he was 18, but he, too, was unable to provide for his family.
To his surprise, Quinones-Hinojosa got offers from several universities, he recalls.
"The department's parallel investigation remains ongoing, " Justice spokeswoman Xochitl Hinojosa said.
Hinojosa: In general, his position is that he wanted to be here to stand behind the federal empowerment zone that he helped created in places like Harlem.
Hinojosa: Well the head of the Empowerment Zone Terry Lane who played a major role in getting the former president here said that is exactly what his job is about.
When he matriculated, the U.S. population was about 18% minority, but faculty at medical schools was only about 3.7% minorities, Quinones-Hinojosa wrote in an article in the New England Journal of Medicine.
Hinojosa: There were some rumors about that in t he papers several months ago, and most of the New Yorkers I spoke to laughed and said sure we'd vote for him why not?
NAFTA, Hispanics stood out: Raul Hinojosa-Ojeda, of the University of California at Los Angeles, reckons that many Mexican immigrants who had headed north in search of work saw jobs move in the opposite direction.
The Justice Department is confident its settlement administrator "will be successful in locating the vast majority of the victims and is committed to ensuring that best efforts are made to do so, " spokeswoman Xochitl Hinojosa said.
"For many years, the Congressional Hispanic Caucus has pushed for a permanent, legislative solution to our ineffective and unjust immigration system, and we believe 2013 will be the year this goal becomes reality, " Rep. Ruben Hinojosa, D-Texas, the caucus chairman, said in a statement.
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