The New Americans - Pedrito Says Goodbye to School

As the Flores family prepares to emmigrate to the United States, little Pedrito says goodbye to his classmates and teachers.
The New Americans follows four years in the lives of a diverse group of contemporary immigrants and refugees as they journey to start new lives in America. We follow an Indian couple to Silicon Valley through the dot-com boom and bust. A Mexican meatpacker struggles to reunite his family in rural Kansas. Two families of Nigerian refugees (including the sister of slain Ogoni activist, Ken Saro-Wiwa) escape government persecution. Two Los Angeles Dodgers prospects follow their big dreams of escaping the barrios of the Dominican Republic. A Palestinian woman who marries into a new life in Chicago only to discover in the wake of September 11, she cannot leave behind the pain of her homeland's conflict.

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People & Blogs

Tags:

• immigration
• new
• americans
• kartemquin
• films
• mexico
• migrant
• workers
• meatpacking
• industry

[edhombre]

I watched this story and it reminded me, well of me. I am proud of his father for having done things the right and legal way and putting his family through what could have been a very dangerous path of migrating illegally.

[jalisco103]

This reminds me of when i left, so sad......

[pinkislife14]

Este vídeo está tan triste. ¡Muchacho pobre! Espero que él reciba una mejor vida en los Estados Unidos.

[Madeinbonao]

Eso me parte el alma... tener una nueva vida, nuevos amigos y dejar todo atras para conocer un nuevo mundo que esparamos siempre en Dios sea mejor... Me hicieron llorar al ver este video por todos los recuerdos que me llegan a mi mente y que no necesariamente son buenos... Espero que el cambio para esa familia sea para bien.

[emota6]

eso mismo me paso a mi hace mucho tiempo :( pero todo pasa por una buena razon