Leslie Berestein Rojas Immigration and Emerging Communities Reporter
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Leslie Berestein Rojas is KPCC's Immigration and Emerging Communities Reporter.
An award-winning journalist with several years’ experience reporting on immigration issues, Berestein Rojas most recently covered immigration on the U.S.-Mexico border for the San Diego Union-Tribune. She has retraced the steps of migrants along desert smuggling trails, investigated immigrant detention contractors, and told the stories of families left behind in Mexico’s migrant-sending towns.
A native of Cuba raised in Los Angeles, Leslie has also written for Time, People, the Orange County Register and the Los Angeles Times. She has reported from Mexico, Central America and the Caribbean.
Stories by Leslie Berestein Rojas
Mr. Colbert goes to Washington (and testifies on immigration)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t39uqg6e4so&feature=player_embedded
In the news this morning: Colbert in Congress, Sanchez on the hot seat in OC, the DREAM Act revisited and more
Fresh off farm gig, comedian Colbert testifies in House hearing - CNN.com
American snapshot: Bell Gardens
Multi-American
Quote of the moment: A blogger on the DREAM Act and outsourcing
"It doesn't make sense that in this country we have DREAM Act students now graduating from colleges, some with honors, who not only can't work but must sit on the sidelines and watch workers imported from other countries to do the work they can and should be doing.
In Bell, a recipe for exploitation?
How much of a role did the city of Bell's ethnic and economic makeup have to do with the corruption scandal that landed eight city officials in jail yesterday? Plenty, if you ask those who live there.
In the news this morning: DREAM Act vote post-mortem, a kidnapped migrant boy, a costly Quran-burning stunt and more
Passion and Politics on Immigration Act - NYTimes.com
Next step on DREAM Act: A stand-alone bill, supporters say
Today’s Senate vote blocking a defense bill that included the DREAM Act – proposed legislation that would create a path to legal status for undocumented youths who go to college or join the military – is being seen as a temporary hurdle by the bill’s supporters, some of whom rallied this afternoon in downtown Los Angeles following the vote.
No to the DREAM Act, at least for now
The U.S. Senate has voted 56-43 against taking up a defense bill with an amendment that would have included the Development, Relief and Education of Alien Minors Act, known as the DREAM Act, which would provide a path to legal status for undocumented youths who attend college or enlist in the military.
Waiting for a DREAM Act vote
Students at a makeshift calling center at the UCLA Labor Center in the Westlake district of Los Angeles watch C-SPAN 2 in anticipation of a U.S. Senate vote on the DREAM Act, which would provide a path to legal status for undocumented youths who attend college or join the military.
Video: A DREAM Act rally in Los Angeles
http://vimeo.com/15148067
In the news this morning: The DREAM Act comes up for a vote, more
Senate Poised for DREAM Act Showdown Today - COLORLINES
L.A. in color: The ethnicity map
Perhaps the most interesting thing I've seen all day: A color-coded map of the Los Angeles area based on race and ethnicity, which has been making the rounds all day on Twitter and via several local blogs (and now, finally, this one).
A month of daily dispatches from Tacolandia
Thirty taco trucks in thirty days? Bring it on.
Quote of the moment: An aspiring soldier without papers
"A Navy recruiter came to my high school, and I told him about my status. I told him that I was his next Navy SEAL (the best of the best). He chuckled, and I did, too. I told him I didn't have a Social Security number and asked if that would be a problem.
DREAM Act campaign heats up before vote tomorrow
With a day to go before a Senate vote on the DREAM Act, proposed legislation that would allow a path to legal status for undocumented youths who go to college or join the military, student groups and other supporters are pulling out all the stops in their campaign to secure votes.
