"Tony and Janina": Film of love, deportation to tour Michigan » peoplesworld: "The immigration narrative is often missing the human face. Americans are told that 11 million undocumented people are living in the United States, but the lives, loves and emotions behind those 11 million are often absent.
To counteract that and to give the immigration debate a 'human face' is the goal of director Rita Leitman in her new film Tony and Janina's American Wedding.
During a press conference announcing the Michigan tour of the film, Leitman said Tony and Janina Wasilewski could be of any ethnicity but happen to be Polish. She wanted to take one 'very compelling story' and use it to show the nation and our elected officials how our broken immigration system needs fixing."
The MexicoBlog of the Americas Program, a fiscally sponsored program of the Center for Economic and Policy Research (CEPR), is written by Laura Carlsen. I monitor and analyze international press on Mexico, with a focus on security, immigration, human rights and social movements for peace and justice, from a feminist perspective. And sometimes I simply muse.
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