Farmingville

The shocking hate-based attempted murders of two Mexican day laborers catapult a small Long Island town into national headlines, unmasking a new front line in the border wars: suburbia. For nearly a year, Carlos Sandoval and Catherine Tambini lived and worked in Farmingville, New York, so they could capture first-hand the stories of residents, day laborers and activists on all sides of the debate.

I thought this film portrayed many sides of a complicated issue, and was well done. Immigrants are people too - not just statistics. And yet in communities already overburdened by growing numbers and diminishing resources, who will pay the bill?