Porters deliver precious cargo across the U.S.-Mexico border to keep families connected.

Maletero Independent Lens

Premiered March 23, 2023
Maletero

Luciano, once an immigrant himself, now makes a living as a maletero, a porter driving across the border, delivering goods from immigrants who settled in Texas to their families in the same Mexican town they all left decades ago.

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