An interview with writer and journalist Roberto Lovato about the current state of immigration policies and his ties to Central America. His work popularized the term “Juan Crow”, a reference to a system of surveillance and control of immigrants to the US that resonates with Jim Crow segregation laws. Affiliated with the San Francisco's Writers' Grotto, Lovato recently completed a 3-year turn as a Visiting Scholar at UC Berkeley's Center for Latino Policy Research.