Trailer for The Second Cooler, a documentary about unauthorized immigration. Narrated by Martin Sheen.

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The Second Cooler, narrated by Martin Sheen, pulls back the curtain on illegal immigration. Using first person stories and the insights of expert witnesses, it unravels why approximately 12 million migrants are in the United States illegally, exposes what the life and death issues...

The title of the film is explained.
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Se explica el título de la película.
Runtime / Duración: 00:02:41

The United States played a major role in creating economic and political inequality in Latin America.
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Los Estados Unidos desempeñó un papel importante en la creación de la desigualdad económica y política en América Latina.
Runtime / Duración: 00:03:09

President Bill Clinton, President Carlos Salinas, and Prime Minister Brian Mulroney knew at the time they signed the North American Free Trade Agreement they were displacing millions of small Mexican farmers.
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El presidente Bill Clinton, el presidente Carlos Salinas, y el primer mini...

An serious problem for labor in the United States is the outsourcing of jobs.
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Un problema grave para los trabajadores en los Estados Unidos es la externalización de puestos de trabajo.
Runtime / Duración: 00:05:06

What free trade did to Mexico's traditional farmers on a grand scale, it did to Alabama's textile mill owners on a small scale.
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Lo que el libre comercio hizo a los pequeños agricultores de México en gran escala, lo hizo a los pequeños propietarios de las fábricas textiles de Alabama...

Alabama State Senator Scott Beason explains why he wants to completely militarize the border.
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Senador Scott Beason de Alabama explica por qué quiere militarizar completamente la frontera.
Runtime / Duración: 00:01:37

The United States has two separate, unequal systems by which a person may enter legally. One is for Canadians and Western Europeans; the other is for Africans, most Asians, and Latin Americans.
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Los Estados Unidos tiene dos sistemas separados y desiguales por el cual una persona pued...

A significant part of Comprehensive Immigration Reform is major expansions of the Guest Worker Program, a program of indentured servitude and human trafficking.
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Una parte importante de la Reforma Integral de Inmigración es grandes expansiones del programa de trabajadores temporales,...

Latin America's indigenous people, who traditionally do not have title to land, may not come to the Unites States legally. They are dying in disproportionate numbers in Arizona's Sonora Desert.
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Los pueblos indígenas de América Latina, que tradicionalmente no tienen título de propied...

Director Ellin JImmerson compares the rigid demarcation line separating legal from illegal immigrants to the Civil Rights Movement of the 1960s.
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Directora Ellin Jimmerson compara la línea de demarcación rígida que separa inmigrantes legales de los inmigrantes ilegales a la línea de ...

Crossing borders illegally is expensive, dangerous, humiliating, and sometimes deadly.
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Cruzando fronteras ilegalmente es cara, peligrosa, humillante, y a veces mortal.
Runtime / Duración: 00:13:00

Before migrants cross the border illegally, they fill a backpack with food, water, hopes, and dreams.
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Antes de los inmigrantes cruzan la frontera ilegalmente, llenan una mochila con comida, agua, esperanzas y sueños.
Runtime / Duración: 00:01:56

A major part of Comprehensive Immigration Reform is complete militarization of the United States border with Mexico.
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Una parte importante de la Reforma Integral de Inmigración es la militarización completa de la frontera de Estados Unidos y México.
Runtime / Duración: 00:02:26

More migrants have died trying to cross the United States's southern border than died as a result of the September 11 terrorist attacks and Hurricane Katrina combined.
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Más inmigrantes ilegales han muerto tratando de cruzar la frontera sur de los Estados Unidos que murieron como resu...

Director Ellin JImmerson acknowledges the death of her daughter, Leigh Anna Jimmerson, and her daughter's boyfriend, Tad Joseph Mattle, who were killed by a drunk driver during the editing of The Second Cooler. The driver was an unauthorized man from Mexico.
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Directora Ellin Jimmerso...

Joseph Nevins is professor of geography at Vassar College whose area of specialization is the border. He describes how the United States has become part of a morally corrupt system of global apartheid.
English / No español
Runtime: 00:46:30

Mary Bauer is an attorney. When we interviewed her, she was working for the Southern Poverty Law Center. The author of "Close to Slavery: The Guest Worker Program in the United States," she describes the sinister realities of the program. Major expansions of the Guest Worker Program are foundatio...