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Tuesday, August 25, 2009

Quantcast 'Which Way Home' tracks child migrants' dangerous journeys



It was the anguish of a 9-year-old child that made Rebecca Cammisa vow to press on.

When the filmmaker first met the Honduran boy named José at a detention center in southern Mexico, he was alone, scared and crying. He was one of an estimated tens of thousands of Latin American children who annually try to cross illegally into the United States, many by riding the tops of railroad freight cars, most in search of work or missing parents.


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