Borderland : Episode 1 / Scorpion TV.

[Place of publication not identified] : Scorpion TV, [2014]

New York, N.Y. : Distributed by Infobase, 2017.

©2014

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Gathered at the Pima County Morgue, in Arizona and tasked by the medical examiner Dr. Greg Hess, six American volunteers set out to retrace the footsteps of three migrants who died while crossing the border from Mexico. The six American’s embark on an arduous and often heart-breaking journey to Guatemala, El Salvador and Chiapas, southern Mexico, but only after they first explore illegal immigration on the US side of the border. They join a local Arizona sheriff in Cochise County, visit ranchers furious that Mexican cartels now smuggle people and drugs across their land and finally the group camps out in the Sonoran desert with humanitarian aid group No More Deaths. Confronted with two sides of the story, the six Americans start to realize that the world of immigration may not be as black and white as they originally thought it was...

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May 20, 2019

9 - 12, Academic/AP

Meet the Participants (2:12); Pima County Morgue (4:35); Cochise County (3:31); Operation Gatekeeper (1:56); Malpai Ranch (3:42); Reactions to Border Ranch Stories (2:17); Vandalism and Theft on Border (4:17); No More Death (2:04); Leaving Supplies on Migrant Trails (2:25); Changing Stances on Immigration (3:21); Body Identification (1:54); Deceased Migrant Files (3:33); Maira Zelaya (3:54); Claudethe Sanchez (3:11); Omar Lopez (5:09); Credits: Borderland: Episode 1 (0:40);

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