The big items, though, were undoubtedly the Cannes entries: James Gray's Immigrant showed a tense and unpleasant scene with Joaquin Phoenix's character menacing the timid immigrant, played by Marion Cotillard.
Her current form of identification, a United States passport from 2002, reveals a slim and bright-eyed woman who was, she said, "active and outgoing" and who had, as an immigrant, shown a determined resourcefulness in adapting to her new country.
This summer, I will be helping Canadian comic Bobby Mair do just that by making his Filthy Immigrant show the first at the Edinburgh fringe to be live broadcast on Periscope.
Last year, a 14-year-old illegal immigrant showed up at the door of Kings County Hospital Center, a public hospital in Brooklyn, needing a liver transplant, without which he would have died.
San Francisco's long history as a destination for Asian, Latin American and Mediterranean immigrants shows up in data from Pillsbury: Bay Area consumers buy much more enchilada sauce, avocados (for guacamole), teriyaki sauce, olive oil and marinades than the national average.
An examination by The Times of cases across the country involving seriously injured and ill immigrants shows patients at the mercy of hospitals and hospitals at the mercy of a system that provides neither compensation nor guidance.
On that subject, comparing these newcomers with Europe's second-generation immigrants shows that America is doing a lot that is right.
A comparison of the average relative earnings of the entire group of second-generation immigrants shows that the 5.0percentt earnings disadvantage in the first generation is reversed to a 1.6percentt earnings advantage for second-generation immigrants.
Evidence from the Joint Council for the Welfare of Immigrants shows the "Right to Rent" checks have led to housing discrimination towards British people of colour, people with accents and anyone who just appears a bit foreign.
Similarly, van Oeffelen et al. show that first generation Indonesian immigrants display a higher incidence of acute myocardial infarction when compared to native Dutch; the second generation Indonesian immigrants shows an inverted relationship [ 13].
