La Placita: Longtime Sanctuary for Migrants Now Faces Gentrification

LMU Professor Rubén Martínez was interviewed for this KCRW segment about the Catholic Church built in 1814 in El Pueblo. “The church would have been functioning, basically, as a refugee welcome center 24/7. People [were] arriving by any means necessary, getting across the border, fleeing the civil wars, the chaos of the civil wars in El Salvador and Guatemala at that time,” Martinez explained.

Source: KCRW-FM
La Placita: Longtime Sanctuary for Migrants Now Faces Gentrification