invisible mexicans
Living amongst multi million dollar mansions, thousands of undocumented immigrants live in subhuman conditions without electricity, running water or sanitation. They all work to build and maintain the local neighborhood homes and businesses. Award winning filmmaker John Carlos Frey spends a year amongst Mexican laborers in the hidden shantytowns of wealthy San Diego, California.
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The Invisible Mexicans of Deer Canyon is in depths look at what life is like for millions of undocumented immigrants living in the shadows of American society. The film portrays intimate details of several individual day laborers that live in sub-human conditions amongst multi-million dollar homes.
Raul, Jose and Jesus work general construction. Pedro works in the local tomato and strawberry fields as a farm worker while Carlos works as a groundskeeper at a world-famous five star resort. All of the men earn minimum wage and work part time or seasonally. Their meager weekly salaries are saved and sent to family members back home in Mexico. The men cut back on living expenses by living outdoors in shacks constructed of plastic tarps, cardboard and scrap lumber. Local neighborhood residents and land owners continue to push the migrants deeper into the canyon and further from civilization as housing developments spread throughout the area.
John Carlos Frey captures the daily struggles, triumphs and spirit of the undocumented Mexican immigrants living and working quietly amongst some of the wealthiest regions of America. The Invisible Mexicans of Deer Canyon is a never before seen expose of migrant life and the untold side of the immigration debate.