Description: When Headlines Cross Borders and Strangers Become Neighbors
No one can deny: the situation at our southern border is vexing and can seem hopeless. And it’s scary, for everyone involved. Including the countless Central Americans asylum seekers who are fleeing life-threatening poverty, violence, and corruption, in search of safety and security for their families.
The overwhelming majority of people crossing the border are mothers, fathers, and children, for the most part, Christians, hoping to follow the rules and one day become legal citizens of our country. No matter our politics, it's time we witness their stories of pain and struggle, faith and love. ACROSS is their story, through the eyes of Americans who have been challenged and enriched by their presence in our communities.
ACROSS is the story of what happens when we set aside our politics and witness the humanity and faith of asylum seekers firsthand. Filmed in Honduras, Texas, and Illinois, this four-part docuseries follows three women and their children who escaped abuse and violence in Honduras and Guatemala, and a Midwestern church that experienced a complete transformation in their hearts when they stopped seeing these families as news headlines and started treating them like brothers and sisters in Christ.