Latino families come to this country for a new life, but two generations later, many are struggling and their children increasingly end up in foster care.
By Daniel Heimpel
It is a cool winter night as Elba Covarrubias, a 30-year-veteran of Los Angeles County’s Department of Children and Family Services (DCFS), cuts the dark of poor, suburban and largely Latino Pacoima with the bright beams of her big blue 1987 Mercury Marquis station wagon.
