About the movie

The movie, El Nacional, is the story about four children and their adult brother as they desperately race across Texas for survival. They are running because their parents, undocumented for 30 years, were caught, arrested and thrown in jail in one fell swoop. Deportation is only a matter of time. When CPS separates them, the children are forced to abandon the only home they've ever known, leaving behind their friends, their school, neighbors, sweethearts and their youngest brother, age 3, and their dog, Frijol.

A routine traffic stop by a police officer goes terribly wrong and now they are not only running from immigration officers but also from the law.

In the United States we see media coverage of huge "immigrant roundups" (raids) but the story of what happens to children who are torn from their parents when the parents are deported is rarely seen. Yet it happens every day in this country. The present law must be enforced. The parents must go but the American-born children stay.

El Nacional tells the story of one family torn apart... and the fear and agony the children are forced to bear alone.

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