The Forgotten Americans - Poverty on the Texas Border

Streaming video - 2000

“…how sad to be born here, live here all your life, die here and not know what it is like to be an American…” —colonia resident Filmmaker Hector Galan takes you on a journey to the colonias. We travel into American communities where hope resides despite the fact that the streets have no names and often there is no running water or electricity.. Forgotten Americans captures a day in the life of America’s poorest people along the Texas border who live in “colonias”. The film had its world premiere on March 17, 2000 at a special screening at the Smithsonian in Washington DC and then was nationally broadcast on PBS in December 2000 ..