#A TALE IN THE DESERT. MOVIE#The movie proceeds like a detective story in three strands. As director Marc Silver pointed out in the discussion following the film screening, with militarization of the United States-Mexico border set to increase over the next several years, the number of deaths will only rise. With massive spending on border control making it more difficult for migrants to cross in populated areas, people mainly from Central America and Mexico increasingly pass through south Texas or the Arizona desert, where many die of dehydration and exposure. Border Patrol found the remains of 445 likely migrants in the desert. Lost in that conversation is the shocking number of migrants who have died crossing the border-in 2013 alone, for example, the U.S. In the current political debate over immigration reform, discussion has seesawed between legalization of 11 million undocumented immigrants in the United States on the one hand and increasing border security on the other. Who is Dayani Cristal?, a film by Gael García Bernal and Marc Silver, portrays death in the desert. Nothing could be more fitting, for a movie about the hazards of immigration to the United States, than to screen it before an audience of immigrant domestic workers and grassroots community leaders who themselves have suffered the risks and dangers the movie so vividly conveys. One of the most provocative movies to come out this year made its public debut in Washington, DC in April-not at the ritzy E-Street movie theater, but at “ Rising Voices for a New Economy,” a joint summit of National People’s Action, a network of urban and rural grassroots organizations, and the National Domestic Workers Alliance, a leading voice for low-wage workers in the United States.
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