The Issue: Immigrant Rights
Human rights belong to each person, no matter who you are, where you live, or how you came to be there. Government policies and practices should protect the human rights of all immigrants. This includes upholding the right to education, the right to medical care, the right to fair employment and working conditions, and the right to housing services. Looking at the situation today, it is clear that the United States is failing to fulfill their human rights obligations for immigrants, who are often condemned to live and work in appalling and degrading conditions.
Still from the film "Fast Food Nation"
Amnesty International's USA Program is launching
a campaign focused on the human rights of immigrants.
We are proud to support Richard Linklater's new film Fast Food Nation, which brings important human rights issues to the big screen, and is in theaters now. This powerful film sheds light on the hidden human rights violations that are an everyday reality for many undocumented immigrants in this country. As the film navigates through dangerous border crossings, to appalling worker conditions in slaughterhouses, it unveils a side of the U.S. that many people don't know or believe exists.
| See AIUSA's interview with Wilmer Valderrama and screenwriter and author Eric Schlosser at the "Fast Food Nation" Premiere!| More clips from the movie »
