Chelene is a former model and has a Hispanic daughter. Ted is a black homelessness activist. These are not the people typically associated with the burgeoning anti-illegal immigration movement, a movement often dismissed as racist but whose talking points are oddly progressive: education, living wages, and economic inequality.

The Other War revels in the dual nature of the movement as it follows these activists over the course of a year at public rallies in Los Angeles, the second largest Mexican city in the world.

Chelene guides this tour through an America that no longer feels like her home, and we glimpse the anger and confusion that have driven her to the cause. She takes us to North Hollywood where an influx of Latino residents makes it feel "slummy," and she visits Skid Row where she finds like minds among its homeless population.

Ted has long been a controversial figure in Los Angeles politics. A strong Republican who supported the Iraq War, he is often called a political opportunist, but he makes no qualifications when he says that illegal immigration is "the biggest threat to black people since slavery."

They take the streets at City Hall and in Hollywood. They get booed at an all-American Fourth of July parade in affluent Pacific Palisades. They obstruct daily life and business in the self-declared "sanctuary city" of Maywood.

At every step of the way, progressive immigrants-rights activists hold counter-demonstrations. Confrontations between these fervent activists often escalate into violence, even though both sides claims to fight for a fairer America. Both deadly serious and darkly humorous, this film will challenge your beliefs about not only the immigration debate but also the activists who take this debate to the streets.

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