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Good series if you havent seen it. This episode is still running this week (I think) on FX.
This is the guy who did the documentary on eating nothing but macdonalds for 30 days and what it did to him. He's in the second season of a regular television series, where he takes someone and puts them in a generally orthogonal situation for a month. Its got its hinks and issues, but its interesting.
This one has a legal cuban immigrant whose parents immigrated to the US when he was a kid, and he's now one of the "minute men" border patrol guys. So's his wife.
They drop him into a family of illegal immigrants...five kids and the parents living in a 500 square foot one bedroom apartment.
I wont spoil it, but its a heck of a learning experience for all of them. He's regularly taken to task by the oldest daughter, 17 and applying for a fullbright scholarship and trying to get into princeton. By the end, they're close friends.
He softens his stance considerably, and a visit to mexico (to see where the family lived before) knocks him off his foundation. Couple of joined brick walls in a weedy field and a piece of corrugated iron for a roof. Open pit with water seeping up into it is the water supply. Bathroom is the field behind the 'building'. Their remaining relatives live in complete squallor.
He comes to see the motivation for people to immigrate illegally to the US, and sees that the poverty they live in here is still a huge step above what they came from. Still feels strongly about immigrating legally and is good and PO'd at the mexican government for not doing more for their population.
Good story: put the folks at the furthest ends of this particular spectrum together until they understand each other.
This is the guy who did the documentary on eating nothing but macdonalds for 30 days and what it did to him. He's in the second season of a regular television series, where he takes someone and puts them in a generally orthogonal situation for a month. Its got its hinks and issues, but its interesting.
This one has a legal cuban immigrant whose parents immigrated to the US when he was a kid, and he's now one of the "minute men" border patrol guys. So's his wife.
They drop him into a family of illegal immigrants...five kids and the parents living in a 500 square foot one bedroom apartment.
I wont spoil it, but its a heck of a learning experience for all of them. He's regularly taken to task by the oldest daughter, 17 and applying for a fullbright scholarship and trying to get into princeton. By the end, they're close friends.
He softens his stance considerably, and a visit to mexico (to see where the family lived before) knocks him off his foundation. Couple of joined brick walls in a weedy field and a piece of corrugated iron for a roof. Open pit with water seeping up into it is the water supply. Bathroom is the field behind the 'building'. Their remaining relatives live in complete squallor.
He comes to see the motivation for people to immigrate illegally to the US, and sees that the poverty they live in here is still a huge step above what they came from. Still feels strongly about immigrating legally and is good and PO'd at the mexican government for not doing more for their population.
Good story: put the folks at the furthest ends of this particular spectrum together until they understand each other.