Sue Perkins has a new series starting on BBC One Monday 7th September Sue Perkins: Along the US-Mexico Border.
In this new two-part series for BBC One, Sue Perkins travels 2,000 miles from the Pacific Ocean to the Gulf of Mexico to meet people on both sides of the US-Mexico border.
News coverage of the border tends to focus on drug trafficking, violent cartels and desperate migrants - and of course the wall. But Sue wants to find out for herself what life is really like for the huge variety of people who call the borderland home. Sue’s epic journey takes her coast to coast across a continent, along the length of the border, from the Mexican city of Tijuana on the Pacific Coast to the north-eastern border city of Matamoros. At the start of her journey Sue helps a group of Honduran volunteers building a hostel for fellow refugees fleeing violence in their country, whilst on the US side of the border she spends a day with the sheriff of Pinal County, Arizona, to find out more about the battle with the Mexican drugs cartels that traffic people and drugs, and meets a rancher dealing with migrants climbing over the wall and onto his land. Heading to the coast, she meets some of the many American retirees who’ve settled south of the border for the good life, and joins a group for a keep-fit session on the beach before travelling to the town of Nogales for the spectacular celebrations of the Mexican Day Of The Dead.
