Immigration and a Murder in Patchogue

The Brian Lehrer Show | Oct 18, 2013

Mirta Ojito, Pulitzer Prize-winning newspaper reporter, teacher at Columbia University's Journalism School and the author of Hunting Season: Immigration and Murder in an All-American Town, looks at immigration and small town America through the story of the '08 murder of an Ecuadoran immigrant in Patchogue by a group of teenagers.

→ Mirta Ojito will be speaking at Hofstra University on October 23rd at 6:30PM.

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