DREAM Act is an acronym that stands for the Development, Relief, and Education for Alien Minors Act. It’s a piece of bipartisan legislation that would create a path to citizenship for certain undocumented/illegal immigrants who entered the United States when they were kids. The people who would benefit from DREAM Act legislation are sometimes referred . . .
The point of The Other Side of Immigration—the reason I made the film—is summed up by Ruben Navarrette in the last two sentences of his column today… Instead of always yelling at each other and complaining about illegal immigration, it’s time for Americans to ask “the why” and “the how.” Until we do, we’ll never . . .
[Leer en español] Some people who appeared in The Other Side of Immigration claimed that the Mexican population doesn’t have much information about all the social programs that are available to them. So I made a list. Please share this with people you know in Mexico. Note: don’t be too optimistic about these programs or . . .
[Read in English] Alguna gente que apareció en la pelicula El Otro Lado de la Inmigración declaraba que la mayoría de los mexicanos no tiene mucha información sobre los programas sociales que están disponibles en su país. Por eso hice una lista de ellos. Compártela con tus amigos. Aviso: que no asumas por el tamaño . . .
I think one of the more powerful statements in The Other Side of Immigration comes in the first minutes of the film when a Mexican policymaker explains his view on illegal immigration. “The effect is migration,” he states. “But that’s not the real problem. The problem is the lack of opportunities in the Mexican countryside.” . . .
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.
