Pilar Marrero | KCET
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.
Recent Articles
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Coachella Valley NDSC
Neighborhood Data for Social Change
Coachella Valley Communities to Get Tools for Progress
Post date: 2018-11-12T13:52:36-08:00A 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.
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immigration
SoCal Connected
Immigration Detention is Profitable for Private Prisons
Post date: 2018-07-17T12:00:04-07:00The stocks of two of the largest private prison contractors skyrocketed in the month after President Trump’s inauguration and have continued to grow.
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immigration
SoCal Connected
The Future of the United States is Minority White
Post date: 2018-07-10T09:00:30-07:00The demographic shift of the next few years is unstoppable and still misunderstood.
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immigration
SoCal Connected
Stopping "Sanctuary Cities" Proved Easier Said Than Done
Post date: 2018-07-03T08:39:23-07:00The 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.
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immigration
SoCal Connected
Will More Deportations Bring “Back” American Jobs?
Post date: 2018-06-26T10:18:48-07:00The current debate over immigration is reviving decades-old arguments about its economic effects, and whether more deportations or less legal immigration will produce more jobs or better wages in the United States.
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immigration
SoCal Connected
A Primer on Refugees and Asylum-Seekers, and Why They're Not Illegal Immigrants
Post date: 2018-06-19T08:56:20-07:00The world is experiencing the most significant refugee crisis since World War II. One in every 113 people on the planet is now a refugee. Around the world, someone is displaced every three seconds, forced from home by violence, war or persecution.