Immigrants Walk The Line – Documentary Film Raises Awareness Of ‘War Zone’ Of Immigration On Mexican-American Border

“Every day, hundreds of illegal immigrants cross the border from Mexico into the United States. Some are driven by poverty and hunger, while others are running illicit drugs. They come by truck, by the guidance of the “coyotes” and by the hellish desert wastes. Many will die, and an even greater number will be sent back. Is this “a human disaster of unprecedented proportions,” as John Fife, a pastor who has been charged with three felonies for helping refugees escape to America, described it? Or is it “an invasion with hostile intent,” as Glenn Spencer, an American who is against Mexican immigration, said?

“Walking the Line,” a film by Jeremy Levine and Landon Van Soest, was screened Thursday night in the Andrew Schenker Lecture Hall, with the directors present for questions afterward. The screening was cosponsored by the Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies and the Institute of Puerto Rican and Latino Studies. The film attempts to examine the matter and explore “the uncertain line between what is patriotic, what is moral, and what is just,” according to the film’s Web site.”*

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