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El Inmigrante

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Producer(s)	John Sheedy, Rick Carlson, John Eckenrode, David Eckenrode
Director(s)	David Eckenrode, John Eckenrode, John Sheedy
Release Date	2005
Runtime	90 min
Format(s)	video, DVD
Language(s)	English
Youth Media	no

Film Description

El Inmigrante is a documentary film that examines the Mexican and American border crisis by telling the story of Eusebio de Haro a young Mexican migrant who was shot and killed during one of his journeys north. The film presents a distinct humanitarian focus in which story and character take precedent over policy and empiricism. Towards this end “El Inmigrante” examines the perspectives of a diverse cast of players in this border narrative. A cast which includes the de Haro family, the community of Brackettville, Texas–where Eusebio was shot, members of vigilante border militias in Arizona, the horseback border patrol in El Paso, and migrants en route to an uncertain future in the United States.