Last fall, my film was paired with Luis Alberto Urrea’s The Devil’s Highway as part of a series on immigration at the University of Louisville. I’ve been meaning to read it every since. I’m glad I finally had the chance. The Devil’s Highway is a true story—painstakingly researched by Urrea—about a group of undocumented migrants . . .
It’s the time of year for Christmas shopping and trips to see family. Most of us have the good fortune of being able to hop in a car or catch a flight, visit our loved ones and return to our lives and our jobs a few days later. Going home for Christmas isn’t so simple . . .
Over the past 20 months, I’ve had the pleasure of meeting thousands of dedicated college students at screenings of The Other Side of Immigration. At most of my screenings, I know there are at least a few students in the audience who entered the U.S. illegally at a very young age. The word “entered” is misleading, . . .
Since the mid-1990s, the US has built fencing at various points along the southern border in an attempt to deter would-be immigrants from Mexico. Building the fence isn’t cheap. According to the US Government Accountability Office, the fence costs US taxpayers an average of $4 million per mile to construct, and it will cost another . . .
I recently joined Bob Kee of the Tucson Samaritans to hike trails in the Arizona desert and experience for myself the challenges undocumented workers face when entering the United States. Migrants tend to leave traces as they walk through the desert, so it’s not difficult to know which trails they have used lately. The most . . .
Last month, Mr. Bob Kee of the Samaritans took me on an eye-opening tour of the Arizona desert. I was struck by many things I saw and experienced, some of which I will discuss in the next few posts. One thing that caught my eye was this tower: It’s not a cellphone or radio tower; . . .
Winner of the 2011 American Library Association Notable Video Award, "The Other Side of Immigration" explores the root causes of Mexican immigration like no other documentary.
