Luis Alfredo Galindo, a music professor and mariachi from Bogota, Colombia, began looking for ways to immigrate legally to the U.S. in 2019 and find a safe place for his wife and two kids away from the violence of his home country. He talked to attorneys and scoured the internet, but he couldn’t find any […]
Author Archives: Kristian Hernández
Kristian Hernández is a senior reporter based in Fort Worth, Texas. Hernández is an award-winning journalist and first generation Mexican-American with more than a decade of experience covering immigration and criminal justice. Before joining the Center, he was the Texas correspondent for Stateline and an investigative reporter for the Fort Worth Star-Telegram. Hernandez has a bachelor’s degree in multimedia journalism from the University of Texas at El Paso and a masters in investigative journalism from American University.