We’re seeing it obviously with Syrian and Libyan refugees in Europe. What do you think is the most pressing issue or challenge facing undocumented Latino immigrants in the US today?Ĭlearly for the undocumented, the issue is when their status will be regularized because the reality is that migration is a worldwide issue. In this interview, Juan Gonzalez shares his perspectives on current immigration issues including mass migration of undocumented Central American children to the US, as well as how this and other migratory movements are part of a larger worldwide immigration crisis. Harvest of Empire incisively reveals the forces behind immigration that continues to play out today. The documentary ( airing Wednesday on KCET), is based on Gonzalez’s book that traces major waves of immigration from Mexico, Central American and the Caribbean to the U.S.’ economic, political and military interventions in each of these regions.
Journalist Juan Gonzalez’s Harvest of Empire puts Latin American migration to the US into a historical perspective that spans hundreds of years and contains the modern world’s most complex issue into the simple, yet profound metaphor. In addition to building massive corporate wealth and international political power, their unintended and most bountiful harvest is the migration of millions of men, women and children that have followed the economic bloodlines from their own countries back to the US. It works like this: First-world countries such as the United States that plant seeds of economic and political interests in other, mainly third-world countries, will eventually reap the fruits of their self-serving efforts. For instance, “you reap what you sow” (derived from a Biblical proverb), can help us understand immigration, the highly inflammatory and divisive topic that periodically ignites national debates and is once again a current topic of political discussion. Sometimes it’s the simple idioms or popular sayings that can best help us understand even the most complicated topics.
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