Immigration Battle

What happens when a country changes, and the democratic process can't keep up? When the political system refuses to accept and respond to what's happening on the ground?

The story is truly nationwide now: millions of families living with the fear or the aftermath of the disaster of deportation; the rapidly growing faith community devoted to persuading their brethren of the Biblical mandate to “welcome the stranger”; the high tech alliance with traditional immigrant advocates; the potential voting power of millions of Latino and Asian kids turning 18 every year.

Immigration Battle is a look at the people from all walks of life and all political persuasions trying to make immigration reform happen, and reveals in depth the ways individual action has transformed the political landscape. The film will take viewers on a journey with the new activists who represent a changed national reality.

As new voices to the national debate, they struggle to be heard in the labyrinth of ambition, political calculation and policy-making that is the current Congress. And it is the intersection of these realities that reveals a deep and true portrait of America at this moment, becoming something new.