Word: indocumentados
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...that Paraiso Travel doesn't also depict the uplifting immigrant success stories and the broad economic benefits the U.S. derives from its underground workforce. But what distinguishes the film is its entrancing, flesh-and-blood glimpse into the quirky, angst-ridden workings of the indocumentado world: heated kitchen-table debates back home, demeaning labor cattle calls and desperate housing improvisations in the U.S. (including makeshift rooms over loud, 24-hour racquetball courts in Queens). It's a milieu ripe with characters like a stuttering S&M photographer played with delightful understatement by Golden Globe nominee John Leguizamo (To Wong...
...also won over construction worker Gabino Barrera, 33, at a campaign stop last week in Iguala, Guerrero. Barrera worked for years as an indocumentado in Los Angeles, where four brothers still live as illegals. "I'm not earning enough back here," he says, "but I don't want to have to leave my wife and four children again. I hope, I believe, that AMLO is capable of helping me out in that regard." If so, L?pez could become just as popular in U.S. town squares as he is south of the border...
Pablo Alvarado todav?a recuerda el terror que sinti? hace 13 a?os en Woodland Hills, California, cuando, a?n siendo un joven indocumentado salvadore?o, cinco autos de polic?a con sirenas y luces encendidas lo detuvieron porque los nerviosos residentes de la zona pensaron que ?l era un criminal. Eventualmente Alvarado los convenci? de que estaba all? en busca de un trabajo ofrecido por uno de los vecinos. "Todos los d?as los trabajadores se ven obligados a pasar por cosas como ?stas y peores", dice Alvarado. Como coordinador de la National Day Laborer Organizing Network durante los ?ltimos tres a?os, Alvarado...
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