Bio: Leslie Berestein Rojas

Immigration and Emerging Communities Reporter

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

In the news this morning

Leslie Berestein Rojas | August 11 2010, 4:43 PM

Good morning. I have bilingual code-switching on the brain after posting on the phenomenon yesterday. So here are las últimas noticias:

Ramadan begins

Leslie Berestein Rojas | August 11 2010, 4:31 AM

Photo by Ingmar Zahorsky/Flickr (Creative Commons)

El code-switching es normal, experts say

Leslie Berestein Rojas | August 11 2010, 12:20 AM

Photo by polandeze/Flickr (Creative Commons)

Longest waits for immigrant visas: August

Leslie Berestein Rojas | August 10 2010, 7:49 PM

Source: Visa Bulletin for August 2010, U.S. Department of State

In the news this morning

Leslie Berestein Rojas | August 10 2010, 3:45 PM

Buenos días. Here are a few of the top stories this morning, immigration-wise:

14th Amendment, Section 1

Leslie Berestein Rojas | August 10 2010, 3:05 AM

With so much being reported on the political debate over the 14th Amendment - that which grants U.S. citizenship to people born in this country, and to immigrants who become naturalized - it might help to know just what some GOP lawmakers are discussing as they suggest revisions to end automatic citizenship, now a constitutional right, for children of undocumented immigrants.

C'mon, she's just a kid!

Leslie Berestein Rojas | August 10 2010, 2:35 AM

This morning I linked to a story about Dora the Explorer that appeared in this weekend's Los Angeles Times, tracing the Nickelodeon cartoon character's existence from initial conception (as a cartoon rabbit, of all things) to a lucrative mega-franchise a decade after the show's television debut.