Filmmaker’s loyalties shaken after making illegal immigration documentary: ‘The truth is eye-opening'
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When filmmaker Namrata Singh Gujral set off to make the documentary, “America’s Forgotten,” in the early summer of 2019, she thought she would be bringing to life a remarkably different film pertaining to the trials and tribulations of those trying to unlawfully cross the U.S. border.
“I started reading stories of tragedy, of families trying to cross the Rio Grande, and it really resonated with me. I wanted to show their persecution. I bled and bought the narrative that the media and my party, the Democrats, had sold me,” Gujral told Fox News. “But then when I started making this, the things I found were eye-opening. I realized the narrative I had been sold and supported was not the real truth. Illegal immigration is a terrible practice that should not only be discouraged, but it should be stopped.”
Gujral said it has shaken her political loyalties and caused her to question everything she once thought she knew about the southern border. For months, the entertainment industry veteran journeyed the globe to explore how other countries grapple with the dangers of illegal immigration . She also purveyed her own border state of California, seeking out stories of individuals struggling with the ripple effects of unauthorized crossers – in particular, parents who lost their children by the actions of illegal immigrants.
Our first son Drew was 25 years old and going to law school in San Francisco when we got a call one night that there had been a terrible accident,” Don Rosenberg, says in the film of his son who was killed by an illegal immigrant. “When we arrived in San Francisco, they told us that our son had been killed in a traffic collision. The man who hit him was in the country illegally and never made an attempt to stop."
Then there is the raw interview with parents who lost their son – a 911 dispatcher in the process of becoming a police officer – who was slain by an illegal immigrant while riding his motorcycle to work. The mother, who wears her child’s ashes around her neck, remembers how the at-fault driver refused to apologize in court and was released from prison after just 35 days – while the family is left to endure a life sentence.
“America’s Forgotten” also points to other trickle-down consequences of illegal immigration . Woven throughout the narrative is the story of a homeless U.S. veteran of the Iraq War, who resides on the gray concrete slabs outside the manicured Veteran’s Affairs property on the west side of Los Angeles. Battling the demons of addiction and post-traumatic stress, he claims he could not get a construction job because of his lack of Spanish speaking skills.
However, on the "other" side of the almost 2000-mile jagged border, Gujral said she interviewed more than 150 different people purporting to step foot on U.S. soil: the injured, the poor, the vulnerable. However, the reasons for fleeing their homes – she said – were very rarely on the basis of seeking asylum.
“I would say that at least 95 percent I spoke to had no asylum basis to come here other than to seek a better life,” she surmised. “Remember, that is not to be confused with refugees and those fleeing war zones who have little choice.”
Gujral recalled meeting one family who had three motorhomes in Central America and well-stuffed bank accounts, stressing that was just one of many examples of those who had successfully played the system and had been living in Los Angeles for seven years.
“America’s Forgotten” draws on how unscrupulous “coyotes” -- human smugglers that bring migrants across the U.S. border – pad their pockets with fat wads of cash from immigrants by using talking points and debate videos to urge more people to cross over under the ruse that they will receive free health care and food stamps.
Nonetheless, it is a lure that, especially for women, can be an excruciating price to pay.
“As many as one in three women are raped on their journey to the U.S., whether that is being part of a migrant caravan or on their own,” Gujral conjectured.
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I live in the SE corner of Cochise County in SE Arizona right on the AZ/Mexico border. My house is exactly 6 blocks from the border fence and I can look out my front door and see Mexico. The problems on our Southern border transcend partisan politics, but many have chosen to make it so. There are victims on both sides of the border from illegal immigration and drug smuggling as well. People from South of the border being ruthlessly exploited by callous and uncaring "Cototes" on the one side. Then there are the citizens and legal residents on the U.S. side that are ranchers and farmers that have their properties and livelihoods trashed and destroyed by the passing of illegals on their way to points North, East, and West. The liberal media refuses to portray the mountains of trash left behind on people's property, the damage they incur to fencing, and the slaughtering of cattle and family pets. Not to mention the numerous instances of residents having their homes broken into by people looking for food, valuables, and weapons. I am of Hispanic/American heritage and my heart does go out to those seeking a better life for their families, but we have to look out for our own first. I live here and see the realities first hand. I have in the past suggested to many people that only think about the plight of the illegals, that if you really want to see what happens on our borders, come down and spend some time here and talk to the people that actually live and perhaps get your eyes opened to a different reality. The majority on the left are unwilling or unable to do so for various reasons. Most are just too comfortable believing the drivel that is spewed by the MSM. Kudos to this film maker, who whatever her political persuasion, chose to take that extra step and find out for herself what the realities on the border are actually like and to try to bring it out of the shadows the MSM prefer it remain.
I thought you were moving out to the valley or somewhere less dense?
That particular deal fell through when a rival realtor offered the owner a better deal and sold it out from under me. I am working on another piece of property in the same area.
Sorry to hear that. Better luck with the new search.
The Left complains about affordable housing and low wages yet they support open borders and mass immigration. In 2007 the US population reached 300 million, today 13 years later it's over 330 million, that's a 10% increase in 13 years. What do you think happens to wages when you keep adding 2.3 mil cheap laborers a year, they stagnate because there's more workers than work. What happens to housing costs when you keep adding 2.3 mil people a year who need a place to live, demand outstrips supply and prices skyrocket. The biggest kick is this adversely effects the very groups the Democrats claim to champion, poor minorities and young people. But these groups still vote Dem. because they've been brainwashed into thinking that anything but open borders is racist, I don't care what color or faith an immigrant is I don't want 2.3 mil blond haired white people immigrating here every year either, It's not good for the country and it has lowered our standard of living. It's not because they're brown, black, or asian, it's because 2.3 mil a year is just too many. We spend so much on new infrastructure to accommodate increasing population that we can't afford to repair and replace old crumbling infrastructure and it's been like that since the 80's. I'm all for a reasonable solution for Illegals already in this country but not until the borders are secure and there are policies in place to prevent it from happening again. We had a blanket amnesty before but the promises for a secure border were broken, we live in a democracy so I don't get to make all the rules but there needs to be rules. Every Immigrant who comes to America should come here legally and the amount of immigrants allowed in should be carefully calculated so that it doesn't adversely effect this Country or it's most vulnerable Citizens.