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THE BORDER CROSSED US

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Documentary - Completed 2023

The human cost of US immigration policy reaches far beyond physical borders

- Year of production
- 2023
- Genres
- Documentary, True Story, Social issues
- Countries
- USA
- Synopsis
- While a big white surveillance blimp constantly hovers over the small border town of La Joya, Texas, local police officers patrol the neighborhood looking for human smugglers. The region is littered with traces of people who have attempted to get into the US by crossing the Rio Grande. But rather than arresting the immigrants, the officers are gathering intelligence on the smugglers and smuggling bosses tied to Mexican cartels. Slowly the mutual dependence between police and smuggler reveals a system caught in a never-ending cycle, with the immigrant dangerously caught in between.