Roberto Suro is founding director of the Pew Hispanic Center, a nonpartisan research orgnization whose mission is to improve understanding of the U.S. Hispanic population and to chronicle Latinos' growing impact on the entire nation. In addition to covering issues of international concern, much of Mr. Suro’s more than thirty years in journalism govused on chronicling Hispanic life in the United States. He worked as a correspondent for Time magazine in the Middle East and as bureau chief for the New York Times in Rome and Houston. Most recently, he was a national editor and correspondent for the Washington Post. Mr. Suro is author of "Strangers Among Us: Latino Lives in a Changing America" and "Remembering the American Dream: Hispanic Immigration and National Policy," among other works. From the Series:Policy Watch with Doug Besharov