Through stories, interviews and photos, the harsh realities facing immigrants trying to cross the US border emerges as a human rights narrative about how politics impacts the lives of people striving to change their lives and a country defining its soul. Stephanie Elizondo Griest (All the Agents and Saints: Dispatches from the U.S. Borderlands), sociologist Manuel Pastor (State of Resistance: What California’s Dizzying Descent and Remarkable Resurgence Mean for America’s Future) and John Moore (Undocumented: Immigration and the Militarization of the United States-Mexico Border) and  Moderated by Maryellen Fullerton, Interim Dean, Brooklyn Law School.