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Saul Gonzalez

Saul Gonzalez is a producer and reporter with public radio station KCRW in Santa Monica. Before that, he was the Los Angeles producer for PBS NewsHour and a contributing correspondent for public television's "Religion and Ethics Newsweekly." For The World, Saul has reported on such topics as the lives of immigrant long-haul truckers, Japanese American artists threatened by gentrification and a bi-national adoption program for aging Tijuana racing dogs.
People sit on the steps outside Los Angeles immigration court, which has been closed since Dec. 22 due to a partial government shutdown over funding for a southern border wall.
Immigration
This busy LA immigration court is now a ‘ghost town’ in wake of government shutdown
At a counter in a Latino market, customers wait to buy food while workers cook in the back. In the foreground are huge steel pots.
Food
In LA, unwrapping tamales is the heart of the holidays
Syrian refugees look at the camera as they stand in front of their homes at Azraq refugee camp
Limits on refugee resettlement lead to agency closures in Los Angeles
pamhplets, T-shirt with man's face on table
Politics
This Latino, Arab American was a long-shot candidate — until his opponent was indicted for corruption
Bassem Youssef stands in front of a microphone in a recording studio. Behind him is a screen lit up with the title of his new podcast: "Remade in America with Bassem Youssef."
Arts, Culture & Media
After the Egyptian military took away a political satirist’s show, he podcasts about his new life in LA
Courts
Immigration
Inside one of the busiest immigration courts in the country
Cross-border dog adoption
Culture
Why a trailer filled with 23 greyhounds is crossing the US-Mexico border
Arts, Culture & Media
Game of Thrones: How to Speak Dothraki
Jonathan Erland says the VFX crew working on "Star Wars" didn't just create the things you saw on screen. They had to build from scratch the equipment that made those visual effects.
Arts
The visual effects pioneer responsible for the original ‘Star Wars’ thinks movies today may rely too much on effects
Painter and sculptor Nancy Uyemura
Arts
LA’s Little Tokyo is gentrifying and pushing out some of the city’s most prominent artists
Kalman Aron began sketching when he was 3 years old. He's now 93, and says if he didn't still paint and draw every day he would "die of boredom."
Arts
For over 90 years, this Holocaust survivor’s art has kept him alive
Louis Marinelli is head of the Yes California independence campaign, but he doesn't live in California. His home is in Russia.
Global Politics
The leader of the California independence movement lives in Russia
Islamic Center
Religion
In Los Angeles, anxieties about Trump trigger solidarity — and organization
A degrading building on city street
Development
In Cleveland, here’s where you can find people who are welcoming to immigrants
Jukebox
Music
He’d never seen jukeboxes before. Now he is a master at repairing them.
Trucker
Business
America’s trucking industry faces a shortage. Meet the immigrants helping fill the gap.
Protests
Justice
Hundreds of thousands marched for immigrant rights a decade ago. What’s happened since?
WILLIAM JOHNSON
Global Politics
‘Hitler without the mustache.’ Why — and how — a white nationalist group is backing Trump.
Rugs
Business
Step inside the LA shop ready to profit from better Iran-US relations
Central Americans
Justice
For some Central Americans, fear of deportation is a ‘recurring nightmare’
Monarca
Business
Inside an LA bakery that crosses bicultural borders
ceremony
Global Politics
50 years on, how one law changed America and seeded today’s immigration debate
street
Business
No handout: LA’s street vendors just want to do their jobs, legally
With the help of the military and civilian aid groups, Vietnamese refugees at California's Camp Pendleton created a community after being resettled there in 1975. They received food, shelter and services to help prepare them for permanent residence in the
Conflict
Remembering the California refugee camp that gave Vietnamese a new life in the US
Business-minded immigrants often turn to gardening work because the start-up costs are relatively modest — namely the price of the truck and the gardening equipment.
Business
California’s gardens tell an immigrant story
Screen grab showing Virtual Syria street being designed.
Technology
How to get right in the middle of the war in Syria — from thousands of miles away
Invisible Children, creators of Kony 2012, say they've learned a lot over the past two years.
Conflict & Justice
The producers of Kony 2012 say they’ve learned their lesson, but critics aren’t so sure