Documentary: The Migrant Crisis: Walk With Us || Teatro Santa Ana at La Biblioteca
Event Category: Films
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Documentary: The Migrant Crisis: Walk With Us
Wed, Aug 7, 6pm
Teatro Santa Ana
Reloj 50A150 pesos
By Dennis Lanson
The migrant crisis through the eyes of Pastor Ignacio Martinez, the founder of ABBA safehouse in Celaya, “It’s not about us – it’s about the dignity of our brother ‘travellers”.
It started when Ignacio and his family took food to migrants jumping freight trains Some were sick, there was nowhere to wash or sleep. So he founded ABBA, where they can rest, receive food and medical and psychological help .
The film shows the gap between President Trump calling migrants “rapists and criminals” – and the sad reality. Most are escaping abject poverty and gang violence in El Salvador, Honduras and Guatemala . Their governments – backed by the US for decades, – are enmeshed in endemic corruption The migrants’ dreams of a better life in the USA have been met by tear gas at the border—and cages for those who make it through.
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