Lives for Sale
MovieTitle | Lives for Sale |
User score | 0 |
Release date | Jan 1, 2007 |
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Director | Gayla Jamison |
Production country | US |
Production companies | Lightfoot Films |
Run time | 58 min. |
This harrowing film goes beyond the rhetoric to show why immigrants are willing to risk everything – even virtual slavery – for the American Dream. While politicians, activists, and the media wrestle with the thorny issue of immigration Lives for Sale exposes the painful, rarely seen human side of illegal immigration – especially the growing black market trade in human beings. The documentary also looks at some practical alternatives to these tragic realities. Interviews include immigrants, a "coyote" who brings people across the border for money, clerics, activists, and law-enforcement officials.