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Video: Filmmakers document consequences of U.S. immigration raid

Video: Filmmakers document consequences of U.S. immigration raid

| September 25, 2009 | Comments (0)

Back in May 2008, U.S Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials rounded up 389 undocumented workers in the Agriprocessors Inc. kosher meatpacking plant in Postville, Iowa. The raid was the largest in U.S history. Two weeks later, filmmakers Jennifer Szymaszek and Greg Brosnan started filming “In the Shadow of the Raid.”

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Video: Heavy rains in Mexico can’t beat the drought

Video: Heavy rains in Mexico can’t beat the drought

| September 11, 2009 | Comments (0)

Although Mexico is currently in the grip of the worst drought it has suffered since World War Two, houses flooded and streets turned into lakes this week when torrential rainfall lashed down on Mexico City and the neighboring State of Mexico.

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Video: Central American migrants face more hurdles

Video: Central American migrants face more hurdles

| December 13, 2008 | Comments (1)

A group of Honduran men and women came to Mexico looking for their missing loved ones earlier this year. They claim that there are nearly 600 Honduran migrants who are missing in Mexico who disappeared whilst crossing Mexico to get to the United States.

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