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On this edition of out program, we continue with part 2 of our special report Latino USA Remembers September 11. Everybody talks about it, thinks about it, that some of the September 11 hijackers got into this country on student visas. It's made a lot of angry and frightened Americans call for immigration reform. But what happens when Latinos get caught in the crackdown.

One year later most Americans still worry about how to keep terrorists off U.S. soil. As the Bush Administration toughens its stance on immigration control, thousands of Latino immigrants are on high alert. Advocacy groups say the crackdown on immigration violators is creating a whirlwind of distrust between immigrants and authorities. From WAMU in Washington, Lakshmi Singh reports.

Many People don't know it, don't think about it, really, but Latinos have been serving in large numbers in the U.S. military since World War I. Today, Latinos make-up 6.3 % of the military and 30% of reservists. Latino USA's Deepa Donde and Andrea Valdez visited with some young Latinos who are on the front lines of Americas latest conflict the War on Terrorism

America's latest war has lasted just about one year and for the most part the majority of Americans, including Latinos, support the president's efforts to combat terrorism but there are others who say that perhaps we've paid a price to conduct this war. Joining me from San Francisco is Betita Martinez, director of the Institute for MultiRacial Justice, Arnoldo Garcia of the National Network for Immigrant and Refugee Rights, and from New York is Teresa Gutiérrez with the International Action Center.

Jesus Gonzalez's Commentary on September 11, patriotism, and police brutality.Gonzalez is with WNYC's Radio Rookies a group of young New York journalists.

If the events of September 11 affected millions of people, even thousands of miles away from where the planes hit, what about our own New York City kids' They didn't lose more family members on 9-11; but studies have shown that Latino children experienced a greater incidence of post traumatic stress disorder and depression, even more so than African American, Asian and non-Latino children. Joining us to speak about how September 11 changed their lives is 11 year old Giovanni, Giovanni witnessed the collapse of the World Trade Center from hiss classroom in Greenpoint, Brooklyn, and fifth graders Anna and Michael, who live in Washington Heights, a predominantly Dominican neighborhood on the upper west side of Manhattan.

[Commentary by Maria Hinojosa on September 11, its aftermath, and on living life to its fullest]