The Path From El Salvador to the Oregon Judiciary

President Trump has painted Salvadorans with a broad brush as MS13 gang members.  Here is a wonderful counter story.

A new play tells the story of a Salvadoran immigrant who is now a judge. Here and here are details.

Xiomara Torres crossed the U.S.-Mexico border into California at age 9 as an undocumented immigrant.  In the years after her arrival, Torres became a U.S. citizen, survived the difficulties of foster care and attended the University of California, Berkeley as well as Lewis & Clark Law School before eventually being appointed to the Multnomah County (Oregon) Circuit Court by Gov. Kate Brown in 2017.