Erin Siegal
Reporter, Fronteras DeskErin Siegal is part of the Fronteras Desk reporting team, based in San Diego at KPBS. She is also a Senior Fellow at the Schuster Institute for Investigative Journalism, a Soros Justice Fellow, and a Redux Pictures photographer. She was a 2008-2009 fellow at the Toni Stabile Center for Investigative Journalism at Columbia University’s Graduate School of Journalism. Erin is the author of the award-winning book Finding Fernanda, (Beacon Press 2012), which examines organized crime and child trafficking in international adoption between Guatemala and the U.S. Previously, she wrote a column on public records and government accountability for the Columbia Journalism Review, "The FOIA Watchdog." She's contributed to various media outlets, including Univision, the New York Times, Time, Reuters, Newsweek, O Magazine, Businessweek, Rolling Stone, and more. She lives in Tijuana, Mexico. When she's not eating tacos or working, Erin can be found along the border at Rancho Los Amigos, riding horses and smoking cigars with her favorite vaqueros.
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Dozens of companies are hiding how you can delete your personal data, The Markup and CalMatters found. After our reporters reached out for comment, multiple companies have stopped the practice. -
The location on Kettner Boulevard will be the company's first outpost outside of L.A., Orange County or New York. -
Trump’s spending bill includes cuts to Medicaid, food assistance and more. But it also increases a federal tax credit that helps build affordable housing in California. -
El director de la oficina de campo del Departamento de Seguridad Nacional en Los Ángeles testificó el lunes que los agentes del Servicio de Inmigración y Control de Aduanas necesitaban desesperadamente de la ayuda del personal militar para llevar a cabo arrestos. -
Desde el año pasado, aproximadamente media docena de estados han intentado aprobar leyes que permitirían a las escuelas cobrar matrícula a los no ciudadanos. Ninguna fue aprobada, pero los defensores afirmaron que planean seguir intentándolo. -
Required by Congress, the reports no longer single out things like rigged elections or sexual violence against children as human rights violations.
