Independent Lens

Coming to Independent Lens: The Undocumented

Preview: Season 14 Episode 13 | 30s

Border Patrol agents, Native Americans, smugglers, ranchers, retirees and Samaritans form a constellation of people engaged with the Arizona/Mexico border on a daily basis—policing it, inhabiting it, crossing it, working it, making it safer or simply feeling its consequences. But at the center of it all is the migrants, who sometimes die while trying to cross an unforgiving desert.

Aired: 04/28/13

Rating: TV-PG

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