In The Country Illegally, An Immigrant Takes A Big Risk For A Visa

The Leonard Lopate Show | Sep 16, 2015

Director and producer Mikaela Shwer discusses her new POV documentary, "Don't Tell Anyone (No Le Digas A Nadie)," along with her subject Angy Rivera. Rivera had two crucial secrets in her life. The first was that she was an undocumented child living with her mother and siblings in New York City for 19 years. The second secret was more tragic: Rivera had been sexually abused by her stepfather from ages 4 to 8, a secret she eventually revealed and which, in the strange world of immigration law, helped her gain the visa she had always desired.

The film premieres Monday, Sept. 21st at 10:00PM on PBS (locally, on Channel 13).

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