Teacher's edition.

• Author: Rebhun, Elliott

Your students just might think twice about the ongoing immigration debate when they read Upfront's cover story. It's about a family in New York in which the parents and their 22- year-old daughter--who was brought to the U.S. from Ecuador as a child--are in the U.S. illegally. The 17- year-old son, however, was born in the U.S. and is a citizen. These "mixed status" families make up a growing proportion of immigrants in America today, and they complicate many aspects of an already contentious debate.

On the issue of nuclear proliferation, we examine President Obama's goal of a nuclear-free world at a time when hostile regimes like those in North Korea and Iran--as well as terrorist groups like Al Qaeda--are seeking to build arsenals of their own. If Obama's goal is achieved--no easy task, to put it mildly--would it make the U.S. and the world...