Popular Univision anchor shares her story

“The airwaves may be filled with CNN’s Lou Dobbs talking about “the illegal alien amnesty.” But with another anchor, on another network, the delivery is just as direct about “los indocumentados,” those without documents.

And that network – the Spanish-language Univision – consistently beats CNN and many others of the English-speaking world in ratings. The anchor is Los Angeles-born Marí Elena Salinas, the daughter of an indocumentado, at the network for Immigrant America.

“I don’t think it ever dawned on me that our newscasts would rate higher than ABC, NBC, CBS in markets such as New York, Los Angeles and Miami,” she says, stopping for a one-beat pause, “in general-market ratings.”"

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