Crossing Arizona

With Americans on all sides of the issue up in arms and Congress embroiled in a knock-down-drag-out policy battle over how to move forward, CROSSING ARIZONA shows how we got to where we are today . . .

Heightened security in California and Texas has pushed illegal border-crossers into the treacherous Arizona desert in unprecedented numbers -- an estimated 4,500 a day. Most are men in search of work, but increasingly the border-crossers are women and children seeking to reunite with their families. This influx of migrants crossing through Arizona and the attendant rising death toll have elicited complicated feelings about human rights, culture, class, labor and national security.

"Crossing Arizona" examines the crisis through the eyes of those directly affected by it. Frustrated ranchers go out day after day to repair cut fences and pick up the trash that endangers their livestock and livelihoods. Humanitarian groups place water stations in the desert in an attempt to save lives. Political activists rally against anti-migrant ballot initiatives and try to counter rampant fear mongering. Farmers who depend on the illegal work force face each day with the fear that they may lose their workers to a border patrol sweep. And now there are the Minutemen, an armed citizen patrol group taking border security into their own hands. As up-to-date as the nightly news, but far more in-depth, "Crossing Arizona" reveals the surprising political stances people take when immigration and border policy fails everyone.

Category:

People & Blogs

Tags:

• Immigration
• Arizona
• border
• patrol
• crossing
• Mexico
• California
• Texas

[cynicwithin11]

I just hope I run into the minutemen when I'm hiking around with my gun. I would have no problem killing every one of them. Their not human anyway so it doesn't count. Actually, it might be kind of fun. Like shooting a somewhat smarter deer.

[chewbuggars]

@minunteman32 so does your'e wife.... pinchi puto

[slimms013]

I love how that stupid assed dudes like I know the cartel...but he's talking shit on youtube haaa! better not get him any more upset he might pull out his pistol and start tweeting

[tractorkid223]

@cynicwithin11 come on down with ur gun to arizona.. bring it on... i will be out there Yuma az but you might confuse me with an illegal because im a mexican AMERICAN... so come on down here and bring it and i aint no minuteman either... oh and dont forget to bring lots of ammo cuz u will be in a gun fight with the Zeta cartel... they dont care what stance you take on immigration they will just kill you on the spot... dumb ass

[YmustTh3w0rldG0r0und]

@cynicwithin11 no that's just insulting the deer

[cynicwithin11]

Very true. The more I'm here, the more I can't stand the hillbillies in this state.

[BlessedONE333returnz]

yeah right tokiohote - that's why mexico is the best land on earth and we are just dying to go there - right? oh wait - it's a shit-hole nation where people are killed daily because of the drug cartel and the corruption

I am so sick of people saying mexicans are hard working. it's a myth like the one about how obama stop smoking lol

wake up stupid - our nation is broke because ignorant people are coming into our nation demanding services

[tokiohotelfan4eva131]

Actually mexicans work more then americans..

[gloryfighter1000]

minute men go put water you fuck do something usefull not stand around eating chips looking threw scopes that dont do shit !!

[minunteman32]

Those water bottles make great target pratice.