New Season of Television Show “American Crime”: Immigration and Human Trafficking the Focus
The new season ABC television show American Crime — created by Academy Award winner John Ridley — premieres tonight and will cover topics of interest to ImmigrationProf blog readers. Here is the official summary of this season:
“When a father, Luis Salazar, travels illegally from Mexico into the United States to search for his missing son, he discovers that modern servitude is thriving in the farmlands and agricultural communities. Promised a job and a place to live, these laborers find themselves forced to live in abject poverty. Required to pay for their own food and other essentials, what little money they make is paid back to their employers, and because they will forever be in debt, they can never leave.”
American Crime’s characters are racially diverse and the series also embraces diversity of class, of geography, of perspective. The third season of the anthological miniseries attempts to show every single level of economic comfort — or lack thereof — in and around a small North Carolina farming community. From migrant workers to big wheels in agribusiness, the season covers them all.
For analysis of the show’s new season on VOX, click here. The Los Angeles Times also takes a look at the new season.
KJ