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.
In the days following the capture of alleged Boston bombing suspect Dzokhar Tsarnaev and the death of his brother Tamerlan, authorities have been digging into their background in the search for answers. Dzokhar is 19 and Tamerlan was 26. Both came in to the United States as kids more than 10 years ago.
The younger Dzokhar reportedly had an easy time fitting in, but it was harder for his older brother. This insight has raised some question about how easy, and not so easy, it is for immigrant children to assimilate in the U.S.
Marcelo Suarez -Orozco, Dean of U.C.L.A.'s Graduate School of Education, has spent a good chunk of his career studying how immigrants kids adapt to society here. He co-wrote, with his wife and colleague Carola, an op-ed about it this week in the New York Times.