This is a 2012 documentary but still very relevant as a reminder of how U.S. intervention in Latin America- its efforts to topple democratic reforms and prop up dictatorships, led to mass migrations from those countries to the U.S.- including from the Dominican Republic in the 60s, El Salvador and Guatemala in the 1980s, and from Mexico after NAFTA in the 90s, putting into perspective the more recent wave of migration from Cuba and Venezuela.

When asked how Trump’s mass deportation plan can avoid family separation, Trump’s border czar Tom Homan said, “Families can be deported together.”

“The former and now future U.S. president’s demagogue genius got him so far, but the Democrats offered him yet again the opening because they’ve increasingly lost touch with their traditional constituents: working class and lower-middle-income voters… The Democrats have consistently failed to understand the reasons for working-class disaffection — let alone find remedies to offer them.”

Democrats keep forgetting the working class – POLITICO