Which Way Home

Each year thousands of Latin American migrants travel hundreds of miles through Mexico in hopes of reaching the United States. WHICH WAY HOME follows several unaccompanied child migrants, including Olga and Freddy, nine-year-old Hondurans desperate to reach their mother in Minnesota; Jose, a 10-year-old El Salvadoran who has been abandoned by smugglers and ends up alone in a Mexican detention center; and Kevin, a canny, streetwise 14-year old Honduran whose mother hopes that he will reach the U.S. and send money back to her. These are children we don’t hear about in the news. Facing long odds they become prey for smugglers and countless others. Most of them get as far as the Home of Migrants, a private organization near the border that offers food and shelter; or the Immigration Service, which tries to feed and protect them but can’t let them cross the border or fix their lives. Desperate to lift their families out of poverty or to reunite with a parent who traveled north years earlier, these children must navigate a grownup world. WHICH WAY HOME tackles the complex issue of immigration by zooming in on some of its youngest victims.