• Director(s):

    LUGONES (ROBERTO)

  • Producer(s):

    ARTE GEIE

  • Territories:

    Worldwide.

  • Production year:

    2012

  • Language(s):

    German, French

  • Rights:

    NON-THEATRICAL, TV, VOD, DVD, INTERNET

When police stopped her, Juanita had not paid a parking ticket nor did she have a residence permit but she did have seven children waiting for her at home.
Juanita was arrested and expelled from the US, as are 400,000 Mexican workers every year.

Every morning, a crowd of "indocumentados" - irregular migrants who have been expelled - pile off the bus that arrives in Nogales, Mexico from Tucson, Arizona. These men and women have lost everything - their homes, their jobs, their dreams and sometimes even their children.
They are Mexicans who were living clandestinely - sometimes for years - in the United States. But their children were born in the US, making them American citizens. When the "irregular migrants" get stopped for a simple traffic offense, the police expels them and hands their "American" children over to the US administration. Most of these children will never see their parents again, and some of them will be declared "adoptable" by US families. In this way, the wall that separates Mexico from the United States has torn apart over a thousand Mexican families.