Dying To Get In

Brett Tolley, the director of Dying To Get In, filmed from the point-of-view of the illegal Hispanic immigrants trying to cross into the United States through the southern border. These illegal immigrants that he followed throughout the documentary show how they feel about the United States laws towards immigrants and why they have the same rights to be in the United States as any other person.
Surprisingly, four out of five illegal workers that are in the United States would have rather stayed in Mexico, but because of the lack of governmental funding for the Mexican citizens, they are forced to come to America to find work to be able to feed their families. In my opinion, the Mexican government needs to supply their citizens with better jobs and possibly more need based programs like the United States has formed, i.e. welfare, section eight low income housing and Medicare.
In the most heavily crossed points in the United States and Mexico border, there have been high fences put in place to keep out illegal immigrants. This has forced illegal’s to travel into the remote areas of the desert to cross, which takes up to four days. Because they are forced to travel in the desert, more than 3,000 illegal Mexican immigrants have died due to dehydration and weather conditions. There is another way illegal’s come into America. There are coyotes which are people who transport illegal Mexicans into the United States either by driving them over the border in a vehicle or traveling by foot with them through the desert. These illegals spend most of their savings in order to cross the border with a coyote. Unfortunately for them, the United States catches most of them and deports them back to Mexico.
In response to the documentary, it angered me. Many of these immigrants do not stop trying to cross the border even after they have been caught. They break the law every time they try crossing the border. In my opinion, if a person is caught trying to cross the border they should be detained for a duration of time and fined a large amount of money. I did like that there is a group that tries to keep the illegal’s safe when crossing the border. Groupo Beta is the group that tries to inform the Mexicans that try to cross the border of the dangers that they may encounter. This group also tells the people that are crossing that if they encounter trouble, they should seek an American patrol for help. It was very different looking at immigration from a Mexican perspective than from my American vision. This is why I was outraged at some of the sights I saw in the documentary.

Dying To Get In
Brett Tolley