Death on a Friendly Border explores the difficulties faced by the thousands of migrants each year attempting to make the journey across the border. Since the mid-1990s when the United States began militarizing the US-Mexican border, an average of one person a day has died trying to cross into our country. This film attempts to put a human face on this international tragedy.
Death on a Friendly Border takes place in three locations; San Pedro Chayuco, a tiny town in the mountains of Oaxaca from which we follow the story of one woman who attempted to cross the US desert with her baby; a migrant shelter in Tijuana where people live in a minimal state having been caught by Border Patrol and waiting to try again; and in the border region of the US where we hear from a human rights activist, a Border Patrol Agent, and a citizen who spends his weekends putting water in the desert.
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