Nearly 2000 maquiladoras have been built in Mexico by companies from the US, Asia and Europe. As a result, the border has become a 2000 mile-long open sewer, a vast toxic waste dump. Filmed in three border regions, (Matamoros and Brownsville; Tijuana and San Diego; Ciudad Juarez and El Paso), Borderline Cases reveals the complexity and magnitude of the clean-up and gives a sense of energy and imagination found in the diverse mix of people of both countries who are re-thinking traditional notions of borders as they engage in the search for solutions.
Type: DocumentaryLength: 65 minutes
Year: 1997
Audio Language: English, Spanish
Subtitles: English
Themes: Border, Economics/Development, Mexico, Politics/Human Rights, USA
Director(s): Lynn Corcoran
