Farmingville

June 22, 2004
60 min
Season 17 - Episode 1: Farmingville

Season 17 - Episode 1: Farmingville

POV - Backdrop

Overview

"In the current frigid national climate facing economic migrants, Carlos Sandoval and Catherine Tambini enter the traumatized world of Farmingville, a previously unassuming Long Island suburb that witnessed the beating and attempted murder of two Mexican day laborers. What the filmmakers find is the very dangerous, two-edged sword of a growing national crisis: on the one side, the community's increasing population of undocumented aliens, who are crowding into single-family dwellings and assembling on early morning street corners, hoping to grab a day's wage; on the other, Farmingville's home-owning families, many of whom have lived there for generations and are watching what they envision as a bucolic little village slipping away."

Episode Information

TV Show

POV

Season

Season 17

Episode Number

1

Air Date

June 22, 2004

Runtime

60 minutes