mun2 follows undocumented student.

What if you were 18-years-old and you were living in the U.S. illegally? Mun2, the preeminent voice for Latino youth in America, is launching its first news special focusing on the current immigration debate, and giving a unique perspective to this controversial issue. The half-hour program, which will air on Saturday, June 10 at 10PM, is titled “Mun2 News Special: Immigration” and introduces viewers to Fermin, an undocumented high school student from El Salvador who is lobbying legislators in order to secure a future for himself and others like him.

In mun2 authentic style, viewers will learn about Fermin’s dreams to set an example for his little sister and other students, be present at his prom, attend the University of California Irvine, and lobby for HR5131 and against HR4437 in order to achieve this. Utilizing a documentary format, the mun2 cameras follow Fermin’s extraordinary journey from his Los Angeles’ working class Pico Union neighborhood to Belmont High School, where he attends, to the pro-immigrant marches and walkouts, and all the way to Washington D.C.

He meets with legislators such as Congresswoman Linda Sanchez from California, the staff of Congressman Xavier Becerra ,and attends a closed-door meeting with members of Congress Howard Berman (D-CA), Lucille Roybal-Allard (D-CA), and Lincoln Diaz Balart (R-FL), who authored “The American Dream Act,” bill HR5131 that would facilitate access to postsecondary educational opportunities for immigrant students in the U.S., and would also allow hardworking immigrant youth who have long resided in the U.S. the chance to adjust their status, enabling them to contribute fully to this society.

Fermin is also lobbying against HR4437, also known as the “Sensenbrenner Bill,” that calls for harsher actions against immigrants in the U.S., building hundreds of miles of fence along the U.S.-Mexico border, requiring that businesses verify the legality of all employees’ status through a national database, fortifying border patrols, and declaring illegal immigrants and those who help them to be felons.

The provocative program also features interviews with representatives from anti-immigrant groups such as FAIR (Federation of Americans for Immigration Reform), S.O.S. (Save Our State), and Jim Gilchrist, founder of the Minutemen Project, a grassroots effort to monitor the U.S.-Mexico border’s flow of illegal immigration.

In addition, there’s also commentary from celebrities such as Daddy Yankee, John Leguizamo, Edward James Olmos, Tom Morello, Ozomatli, other politicians such as Congresswoman Linda Sanchez, Mayor Antonio Villarraigosa, and also teachers advocating for immigration reform, student activists in the Los Angeles Marches, in Washington D.C. and even an undocumented German student from Ohio, a female Kurdish refugee from Tennessee and an Ecuadorian student from Virginia.