Take Two translates the day’s headlines for Southern California, making sense of the news and cultural events that affect our lives. Produced by Southern California Public Radio and broadcast from October 2012 – June 2021. Hosted by A Martinez.
We've been discussing how gang violence at the root of the mass migration from Central America. Much of that gang activity is rooted in the U.S., particularly Los Angeles. For decades, gang members have been deported back to their home countries and taken those affiliations with them.
KPCC's Leslie Berestein Rojas joins us to talk about the role of these transnational gangs in the Central American migrant crisis.