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DESCRIPTION:Crossing Arizona unveils the complicated dilemmas presented by the border 
 crisis and the surprising political stances people take when immigration 
 and border policy fail everyone. \n\nFilm followed by discussion. 
 \n\nCo-sponsored by the Santa Cruz Public Library and the Resource Center 
 for Nonviolence.\n\n-------------------------------\n\nCrossing Arizona 
 (2006) \n\nWith Americans on all sides of the issue up in arms and Congress 
 embroiled in a knock-down-drag-out policy battle over how to move forward, 
 CROSSING ARIZONA tells the story of how we got to where we are today. 
 Heightened security in California and Texas has pushed illegal 
 border-crossers into the treacherous Arizona desert in unprecedented 
 numbers - an estimated 4,500 a day. Most are Mexican men in search of work, 
 but increasingly the border-crossers are women and children seeking to 
 reunite with their husbands and fathers. This influx of migrants crossing 
 through Arizona and the attendant rising death toll have elicited 
 complicated feelings about human rights, culture, class, labor and national 
 security. "Crossing Arizona" examines the crisis through the eyes of those 
 directly affected by it. Frustrated ranchers go out day after day to repair 
 cut fences and pick up the trash that endangers their livestock and 
 livelihoods. Humanitarian groups place water stations in the desert in an 
 attempt to save lives. Political activists rally against anti-migrant 
 ballot initiatives and try to counter rampant fear mongering. Farmers who 
 depend on the illegal work force face each day with the fear that they may 
 lose their workers to a border patrol sweep. And now there are the 
 Minutemen, an armed citizen patrol group taking border security into their 
 own hands. As up-to-date as the nightly news, but far more in-depth, 
 "Crossing Arizona" is an indispensable primer on what is already the most 
 divisive issue of this election cycle. \n\nhttp://www.crossingaz.com/\n 
 https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2009/02/27/18573815.php
SUMMARY:film and discussion: Crossing Arizona
LOCATION:Central Branch Library Upstairs Meeting Room\n224 Church St. \nSanta Cruz
URL:https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2009/02/27/18573815.php
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