Farmingville POV

Farmingville POV is a PBS documentary about a Long Island town in which a hate crime against Mexican immigrants occurred. It explores the emotional and zealous political furor the town went through in response to an influx of illegal Mexican day laborers, and the documentary exposed the blatant racism of a faction of the white middle class residents.

It provided good coverage of the political dispute around establishing a hiring center, but I felt that overall it didn't take the viewer anywhere. It didn't really probe issues and it seemed very (understandably) biased on the side of the day laborers and seemed almost to mock the perspective of the "racists". At one point things reached such a pitch that the zealots just looked like crazy people. Perhaps they are, but I would have liked to have seen more insight into their craziness.