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Spanish-Speaking Kids Benefit from Oklahoma Pre-K - Children from low-income families, immigrant families, or who are English learners often come ...

  • Added: Aug 15, 2014
  • Length: 05:55
Caption: Amarildo de Souza, Credit: Facebook
Missing laborer in Brazil highlights disappearances amid police crackdown in favelas

  • Added: Aug 17, 2013
  • Length: 04:58
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On the eve of a vote in Uruguay's House of Representatives on the legalisation of Marijuana, Ben Weisz reports from Montevideo on a country yet to ...

  • Added: Jul 30, 2013
  • Length: 06:51
Caption: Deported parents with children who are wards of the state in the U.S. are sometimes able to visit with their children at the border in Tijuana., Credit: Jill Replogle
One in four deportees have a U.S. citizen child left behind. As they struggle to prove to U.S. social workers and the courts that they can take car...

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  • Added: Jun 11, 2013
  • Length: 04:05
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Rosenow has two barns this size. Each houses about 300 cows. Two decades ago dairymen in Wisconsin discovered they had to grow in order to survive shrinking profit margins. , Credit: Laurel Morales
The Senate’s immigration reform proposal offers a fast track to citizenship for agricultural workers so that they can “continue to do the vital wor...

  • Added: May 03, 2013
  • Length: 04:02
Caption: A former Bracero holds up his identification card from his days as a guest worker in the United States. , Credit: Monica Ortiz Uribe
One of the oldest and certainly the largest guest worker program in United States history was that of the Braceros. Nearly 5 million Mexican labore...

  • Added: May 02, 2013
  • Length: 03:48
Caption: Alison Gamez says she will leave Arizona because of the state's immigration laws. Her husband came to the country illegally, but he has since received permission to work in the US. , Credit: Peter O'Dowd
A federal judge stopped the most controversial parts of Arizona's 2010 immigration law from going into effect. But supporters say that hasn't preve...

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  • Added: May 01, 2013
  • Length: 04:11
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Support group meeting for foreign students and their parents at the Biblioteca Benito Juárez in Tijuana., Credit: Joel Medina
In the last two years, more than 205,000 parents of American citizen children were deported from the United States. That means a new influx of Amer...

  • Added: Apr 23, 2013
  • Length: 03:47
Caption: A drawing by the American child of deported parents in Tijuana., Credit: Beth Caldwell
The majority of the 400,000 people deported from the U.S. in 2012 were adults, many with criminal records, but minors are sometimes caught up in th...

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  • Added: Apr 23, 2013
  • Length: 03:47
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Sunland Park, New Mexico, Credit: Samat Jain
In 2011 and 2012, the small New Mexico border community of Sunland Park made regional headlines and national news for its political scandals. Delvi...

  • Added: Sep 24, 2012
  • Length: 28:59
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Bethesda Jewish Congregation traveled to Cuba to help teach and reintroduce Judaism to Cuba's Jewish population.

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  • Added: May 31, 2010
  • Length: 08:51
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Caption: A farmer harvests coca leaves in Los Yungas, Bolivia, Credit: Roberto "Bear" Guerra
The government of Bolivia would like it understood that it is not in the cocaine business. It's in the coca business.

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  • Added: Jan 13, 2009
  • Length: 10:39
  • Purchases: 3
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A look at how an indigenous Mexican migrants adapt to city life.

  • Added: Dec 24, 2008
  • Length: 08:58
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A look at how immigrant teens grapple with identity issues.

  • Added: Dec 24, 2008
  • Length: 09:02
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Communities divided by the border discover new ways to stay connected.

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  • Added: Dec 24, 2008
  • Length: 09:04
  • Purchases: 1
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A look at the economic forces that push the Purepecha from home and pull them toward Seattle.

  • Added: Dec 24, 2008
  • Length: 09:02
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A look at the tensions in a new immigrant community.

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  • Added: Dec 24, 2008
  • Length: 08:52
  • Purchases: 1