Fighting for Freedom

“Fighting For Freedom” takes the viewer within the complex illegal immigration crisis
to meet the Salazar family and the Dobbe family that employs them. Oscar and Maria
Salazar, trapped in Mexico, are denied work visas to return to the U.S. Their plight is
further complicated by the birth of a child, Angelina; their other two children, born at
Love Orchard, are U.S. citizens. Oscar decides to enter the U.S. illegally. He and Maria,
carrying Angelina, skirt death crossing the treacherous Arizona desert. Their hazardous
journey is juxtaposed alongside that of Dobbe daughter Karen’s, a rising star in an archconservative
law firm, her journey hazardous to her moral and emotional wellbeing. The
Salazar family arrives safely at Love Orchard …till ICE raids Love Orchard and orders a
Deportation Hearing for the now three year old Angelina! The “Angelina Salazar case”,
a definitive microcosm of the U.S. illegal immigrant controversy, is taken all the way to
Washington by the reoriented Karen; who, by opting to defend Angelina, befuddles her
predatory boss, makes up with her estranged father, and converts her conservative
counterpart into her relatively liberal lover. “Fighting For Freedom” has a healthy dash
of political satire, some light and lovely moments along its entertaining way, akin to
another such socially conscious, morally infused film, “Erin Brockovich.”