'The Undocumented': In Search of the American Dream, They Lose It All in the Desert Alissa Valeri - The Badger Herald
go to original September 18, 2013

PBS: The Undocumented Trailer (PBS/Huesken Etown)

Marco William’s film, shot in 2009, delves into the world of the illegal immigrant and exposes his audience to the brutal conditions of a four-day walk through the Sonoran Desert, which encompasses the United States-Mexico border.

The film zeroes in on the concept of loss and the lost, engaging in dialogues from the patrol officers who prevent them from happening, the medical investigators who preserve them when it is too late and the activists who help put the pieces back together in world which disgusts them.

No character, however, is more important or more emphasized than those making the daunting trip through the Sonoran Desert, as well as the families they leave behind. While coroners and consulates try to match corpses to families, the viewer is there, watching and waiting for the return of sanity. When that body is returned and laid to rest in a traditional Catholic funeral back home in Mexico, the viewer is there, witnessing the suffering and anguish.

This isn’t an issue of politics. This, Williams says, is an issue of human rights.

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