Crossing Over (film)

Crossing Over is a 2009 American independent crime drama film about illegal immigrants of different nationalities struggling to achieve legal status in Los Angeles, and stars Harrison Ford as an immigration officer. The film deals with the border, document fraud and extortion, the asylum and green card process, worksite enforcement, naturalization, the office of counterterrorism, and the clash of cultures. Crossing Over was written and directed by Wayne Kramer, himself an immigrant from South Africa, and is a remake of his 1995 short film of the same name. Kramer produced the film alongside Frank Marshall.

After immigrant Mireya Sanchez is deported, immigration officer Max Brogan takes care of her little son and brings him to the boys grandparents in Mexico. Later the woman is found dead near the border. Brogan returns to the grandparents to tell them the bad news.Taslima Jahangir, a 15yearold girl from Bangladesh, presents a paper at school promoting that people should try to understand the 911 hijackers. The school principal reports this to authorities. FBI agents raid the home and ransack the girls room, reading her diaries and a school assignment on the ethics of suicide they criticize her room as too austere and note that she has an account on an Islamic website. The profiler says this makes her look like a wouldbe suicide bomber. Taslima is not charged for this, but it turns out that she stays in the United States illegally. She was born in Bangladesh and brought to the United States at age three. Taslimas continued presence jeopardizes her chances and puts at risk her two younger siblings, who are US citizens because they were born in the country. Denise Frankel, the immigration defense attorney, suggests that instead of the whole familys being deported, Taslima can leave for Bangladesh with her mother while the rest of the family stays in the U.S. ........

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