Leslie Berestein

Leslie Berestein writes about immigration and the border for the San Diego Union-Tribune. She has worked as a reporter at Time, People, the Orange County Register and the Los Angeles Times. Among other assignments, she has reported on missing migrants in Mexico; hurricane victims in the Dominican Republic; refugees rebuilding towns in post-war El Salvador; a septuagenarian bald-eagle feeder in Alaska; and a dinosaur fossil detective in Wyoming. These days, in her leisure time, she joins World Hum’s co-editor, Jim, who happens to be her husband, for trips across the Mexican border to eat carnitas and watch lucha libre wrestling.

Dispatches:
* Picnicking with los Muertos
* Havana Homecoming

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