Pilar Marrero
Pilar Marrero is a journalist and author with long experience in covering social and political issues of the Latino community in the United States. She is the author of the book "Killing the American Dream," which chronicles the last 25 years of immigration policy mishaps in the United States and their consequences for the country´s economic future. The book was also published in Spanish by Penguin Books with the title “El Despertar del Sueño Americano.”
She also has taught journalism at UCLA Extension and Cal State Northridge and is currently covering the 2016 Presidential campaign for Impremedia, a company with media outlets in 15 markets across the U.S., including the flagship La Opinion Newspaper in Los Angeles.
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Los Angeles county approved an LA River Master Plan that will develop a variety of projects over the next several years, including a land bank to buy affordable housing along the river. The five supervisors backed the River and Land Bank plans despite environmental and community groups pulling their support for it the day before.
Deported veterans and their families start seeing the light but still await the full promise of the country they served.
Los expertos ven un reflejo entre los movimientos antiinmigrantes y anti-minorías en la década de 1990, los cambios políticos que trajeron al estado y el estado actual de la nación.
Experts see a mirror image between the anti-immigrant and anti-minorities movements in the 1990s, the political change it brought to the state, and the current state of the nation.
Exactly 25 years ago, 59% of California voters passed the “Save Our State” initiative, better known as Proposition 187, which called for throwing undocumented children out of schools and hospitals and for teachers and nurses to become de-facto immigration
Residents working in local agriculture are invited to offer input to an important environmental rescue project at Ormond Beach in Oxnard, a beach in their community that many have never visited.
Major trends, policies and events that marked the Golden State this year, and some runners up.
A new partnership between local nonprofit Lift to Rise and the University of Southern California´s Price Center for Social Innovation, will mine public data to help the community illuminate the issues and create solutions.
The stocks of two of the largest private prison contractors skyrocketed in the month after President Trump’s inauguration and have continued to grow.
The demographic shift of the next few years is unstoppable and still misunderstood.
The Trump administration has been battling in the courts and on the streets against jurisdictions that call themselves "sanctuaries," arguing that they threaten the rule of law and allow criminal immigrants to roam free.