... and fourth-grade teacher at Hoover Elementary School in Los Angeles was made in response to 1994 California voters approval of the controversial Proposition 187, a ballot initiative denying public education and health care to all undocumented immigrants. The film focuses on the impact that the proposition would make to the majority of its students who are economic and political refugees from Mexico, Guatemala and ... on the street as a result of an apparent robbery and subsequent attack. Her mother is faced with having to explain to Myra why her father is gone and how they will deal wit...

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• Grade Level: Graduate