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New immigration documentary
Roy Germano, who was reared in Louisville, Ky., describes himself as of Irish and German ancestry. And he says he knew little about Mexico or why so many Mexicans came to the United States while he was growing up.
That all changed, he says, when he moved to Chicago and worked at a restaurant with lots of Mexican immigrants. Later, he would attend the University of Texas in 2004 to study Mexican immigration.
In 2008, on a trip to Mexico that was related to his university studies, he took along a video camera and started to document changes in the countryside, where families were leaving for the United States. And he found that residents of Mexico have very good economic reasons for crossing the border, especially when they’re trying to improve the lives of their children.
The result of Germano’s investigations is the new documentary ‘The Other Side of Immigration,’ which was released this week.
It includes more than 700 interviews conducted by Germano, who holds his doctorate in political science from UT.
‘The Other Side of Immigration’ will be an eye-opener for anyone who’s willing to watch. And it might make people think twice before they reach conclusions about how to approach the immigration problem.
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