POV - Farmingville . Preview | PBS

The shocking hate-based attempted murders of two Mexican day laborers catapult a small Long Island town into national headlines, unmasking a new front line in the border wars: suburbia. For nearly a year, Carlos Sandoval and Catherine Tambini lived and worked in Farmingville, New York, so they could capture first-hand the stories of residents, day laborers and activists on all sides of the debate. This timely and powerful film is more than a story about illegal immigration. Ultimately it challenges viewers to ask what the 'American dream' really means. (2004)

Category:

News & Politics

Tags:

• immigration
• mexico
• mexican
• newyork
• longisland
• election

[ginesdepasamonte]

As the film goes along, you get to see the growth of racism from a seed to an infestation. All the while the workers keep working.

[jeff61177]

Sure there is racism. But i think people get too caught up in that and miss the bigger picture. These people HAVE broken the law. they need to be deported or else our immigration laws mean NOTHING, and once laws start to mean nothing, you get...well....Mexico. The place these people are running from in the first place. Sure feel bad for them, but uphold the laws of US. there is a right way and a wrong way for immigration.

[pnumps]

When I was in college in west Texas in the '60's, I thought I knew everything, too. Then I went to work for the Immigration and Naturalization Service.

[babyphil]

Same here, we watched this in my anthropology class in Texas. Makes you think.

[BertoV]

I saw this in my anthropology class..very interesting documentary, sadly this does go on, I can only hope this documentary opened people's eyes on the issues and racism migrants have to face