Border Boom Town
- added March 18, 2006
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Elizabeth Chambers visits a border town in Mexico that is used as a staging ground for migrants getting ready to cross into the U.S illegally.
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heh her spanish is just as bad as mine : )
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Look forward to watching this, in the meantime, please view my piece on Interpreter/Translators.
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Mitch, Elizabeth, and Lauren shot two stories down at the border. Check out this one where they ride with the Border Patrol in Arizona:
http://current.com/items/patrolling-the-border/76300822 -
Sometimes doing a story involves stepping--or driving--into the unknown. The day before Elizabeth, Lauren Cerre, and I shot this piece we spent the day following agents of the U.S. Border Patrol in the deserts between the Mexican border and Tucson. It was January, and undocumented migrants were starting to sneak back into the U.S. after having gone home to Mexico for the Christmas holidays. The numbers of migrants that the Border Patrol agents were apprehending was impressive. The agents told us that the migrant smugglers were based just across the border in Sasabe, a border boom town. The agents hadn't been there. They advised us to be careful. So the next day, we simply drove across the border into Sonora state, Mexico, just as you see in the piece. We had no clue what to expect--except for knowing that the smugglers were organized criminal groups that also sometimes smuggled drugs. That is, they were probably camera shy. Sasabe was about half a mile across the border. We were driving a van because that's all the Tuscon rental car companies would rent us to drive in this part of Mexico. Apparently, the thought is that vans are the least desirable vehicles for car thieves. Ours had tinted windows. Since I look much more like a Border Patrol agent than Elizabeth or Lauren does, I sat in the, invisible, for the half hour or so, while Elizabeth and Lauren approached people on the streets to see who would talk. Because they did such an amazing job of winning people, once I stepped out the van, we shot all the interviews on-camera that you see in the piece.
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