Independent Lens | East of Salinas | Update: Jose and Oscar | PBS

Oscar Ramos, a dedicated 3rd grade teacher in Salinas, California, is trying to help one of his promising students, Jose Ansaldo, succeed. Jose is the Mexican born son of a migrant farmworker family. Ramos, who grew up as a migrant worker himself, wants Jose and others like him to have the opportunity he had to go to become a U.S. citizen and go to college.