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Tells the parallel stories of nine-year-old Carlitos and his mother, Rosario. In the hopes of providing a better life for her son, Rosario works illegally in the U.S. In Mexico, her mother cares for Carlitos. Unexpected circumstances drive both Rosario and Carlitos to embark on their own journeys in a desperate attempt to reunite. Along the way, mother and son face challenges and obstacles but never lose hope that they will one day be together again....
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Mayan Indian peasants are tired of being thought of as nothing more than manual laborers. They organize an effort to improve their lot in life, but are discovered by the Guatemalan army. After the army destroys their village and family, Enrique and Rosa, a teenage brother and sister, who barely escaped the massacre, decide they must flee to United States. After receiving clandestine help from friends and humorous advice from a veteran immigrant on...
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After his family hires migrant Mexican workers to help save their Vermont farm from foreclosure, eleven-year-old Tyler befriends the oldest daughter, but when he discovers they may not be in the country legally, he realizes that real friendship knows no borders.
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On the rough streets of Los Angeles, an unlikely romance is born when Maggie, a down-on-her-luck runaway, runs into a kindhearted illegal immigrant, David, trying to make a new home away from El Salvador as a nightclub busboy. Together they begin an unforgettable journey involving a host of colorful characters including philosophical stripper and a sassy, unusual librarian.
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Lucia, regresa a su pueblo natal, tras la muerte de su padre. La tensión social generada por el racismo hacia los inmigrantes despierta en ella un inevitable sentimiento de lucha.
Lucia returns to her hometown that is changed by a wave of immigration. While fighting the community's racism towards the new illegal workers, she falls in love with Curro, a man who shares her cause. The couple is forced to confront the town's racism and tensions soon...
8) Clemente
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Un hombre cruza el Rio Grande con la esperanza de empezar una nueva vida en América. Cuando una inesperada redada lo separa de su familia, Clemente es forzado a abrirse camino de regreso. Su traumático viaje ilustra les motivaciones y peligros de muchas personas que enfrentan valerosamente esta desafiante odisea.
A man crosses the Rio Grande in hopes of starting a new life in America. When an unexpected raid separates him from his family, Clemente...
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"Diane Guerrero, the television actress from the megahit Orange Is the New Black and Jane the Virgin, was just fourteen years old on the day her parents and brother were arrested and deported to Colombia while she was at school. Born in the U.S., Guerrero was able to remain in the country and continue her education, depending on the kindness of family friends who took her in and helped her build a life and a successful acting career for herself, without...
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"Betita, de nueve años, sabe que es una grulla. Papi le contó la historia desde antes que su familia emigrara a Los Ángeles buscando refugio de la guerra del narco en México. Los aztecas procedían de un lugar llamado Aztlán, en lo que es hoy el sureste de Estados Unidos, cuyo nombre significa 'tierra de las grullas', y establecieron su gran ciudad en el centro del universo: Tenochtitlán, la actual Ciudad de México. Cuenta una profesía que...
11) La encrucijada
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"Jaime Rivera pensó que después de cruzar México y entrar en Estados Unidos, lo peor había quedado atrás. No podía ser muy dificil comenzar en una escuela nueva. Pero lo es. Y no solamente porque casi no habla inglés. Mientras que su prima hermana Ángela se adaptó rapidamente e hizo nuevos amigos y se envolvió en actividades después de clases, Jaime siente que este lugar extraño no es su "hogar." Su hogar de verdad es con sus padres, con...
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No hay distancia que pueda romper en enorme lazo que existe entre una madre y su hijo. Esa es la razón que motiva a Carlitos, un humilde niño de nueve años cuya madre emigró a los Estados Unidos en busca de una mejor vida para los dos. Mientras Rosario lucha día a día por un futuro prometedor, el destino obliga a CArlitos a emprender un viaje extraordinario para encontratse con ella. Tanto el público como la critica especializada han aclamado...
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This documentary is based on over 700 interviews with men and women in the Mexican countryside. The film explores why so many people leave small Mexican towns to work in the United States and what happens to the families and communities they leave behind. The audience is encouraged to think about new and creative ways that the U.S. and Mexican governments can work together to solve the problem of undocumented immigration.
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Jorge Ramos argues for the urgent need to legalize undocumented immigrants in the United States and to reform an immigration system that is flawed. He presents 10 reasons for his beliefs and convincingly argues his point--that undocumented immigrants make the United States a better country and should be accepted.
Estados Unidos es un país que hoy tiene habitantes de primera y de segunda clase. Esto tiene que cambiar, y pronto. Hay 12 millones de...
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A day after N. first crossed the U.S. border from Mexico, he was caught and then released onto the streets of Tijuana. Undeterred, N. crawled back through a tunnel to San Diego, where he entered the United States forever. Illegal: Reflections of an Undocumented Immigrant is his timely and compelling memoir of building a new life in America. Authorial anonymity is required to protect this life. Arriving in the 1990s with a 9th grade education, N. traveled...
16) El norte
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Mayan Indian peasants are tired of being thought of as nothing more than manual laborers. They organize an effort to improve their lot in life, but are discovered by the Guatemalan army. After the army destroys their village and family, Enrique and Rosa, a teenage brother and sister, who barely escaped the massacre, decide they must flee to United States. After receiving clandestine help from friends and humorous advice from a veteran immigrant on...
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"Por más que lo intento ya no recuerdo la cara de mamá. En realidad, son pocas las cosas que recuerdo de ella. Se fue hace mucho tiempo y no ha cumplido su promesa de regresar por Juana y por mí. Decidí que, si ella no venía por nosotros, yo iría hacia ella. Sólo necesito saber que aún nos quiere. Dicen que el viaje es muy peligroso, pero no hay vuelta atrás, tengo que llegar a Estados Unidos con ella. Por lo menos no tengo que hacer este...
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Basada en una historia real, "Sueño de frontera" narra la vida de José, un indocumentado que llega a Estados Unidos para encontrarse con su madre. Su estancia no sólo está llena de conflíctos y discriminación, sino también de amoríos, lujos y excesos. Después de algunos años de experimentar el "sueño americano", la migra lo captura y regresa a México decepcionado porque gran parte de su vida se ha quedado en ese país. Cuando su madre...