"PAPERS: STORIES OF UNDOCUMENTED YOUTH" presented by Border Action Network

Wednesday, April 7th at 7:00 p.m.
Admission: $8.00 general; $6.00 Loft members
Presented by Border Action Network and The Loft Cinema

Join us for this special screening of the new documentary PAPERS: STORIES OF UNDOCUMENTED YOUTH, featuring Border Action Network executive director Jennifer Allen, and a post-film panel discussion with Tucson youth and other special guests.

PAPERS is the story of undocumented youth and the challenges they face as they turn 18 without legal status.
There are approximately 2 million undocumented children who were born outside the U.S. and raised in this country. These are young people who were educated in American schools, hold American values, know only the U.S. as home and yet risk deportation to countries they may not even remember.
65,000 undocumented students graduate every year from high school without “papers” and the door to their future slams shut. It is against the law to work or drive. It is difficult, if not impossible in some states, to attend college. Currently, there is no path to citizenship for these young people.
PAPERS aims to bring the lives, dreams and struggles of undocumented youth to a broad U.S. audience and contribute to the national conversation on immigration reform that will begin in earnest in 2010 as Congress considers comprehensive
immigration reform.
PAPERS is a moving story about coming of age, a human eye on the current immigration debate and a look at how the long‐time custom of scape‐goating continues to haunt America.
Graham Street Productions produced this film in collaboration with the youth who wanted to tell their stories and organizations around the country working to change public policy on behalf of these young people.

VISIT THE OFFICIAL MOVIE WEBSITE:
http://www.papersthemovie.com/

VISIT THE "BORDER ACTION NETWORK" WEBSITE:
http://www.borderaction.org/web/index.php