It follows illegal immigrants of different nationalities struggling to achieve legal status in Los Angeles: dealing with the border, document fraud and extortion, the asylum and green card process, work-site enforcement, naturalization, the office of counter-terrorism, and the clash of cultures.

FBI agents raid the home and ransack the girl's room, reading her diaries and a school assignment on the ethics of suicide.

Realizing she is in the country illegally, Cole makes an arrangement with Claire whereby she will regularly have sex with him for two months in exchange for a green card.

Special Agents from the ICE / Office of Inspector General confront Claire about inconsistencies in her immigration paperwork, and she admits to the sexual arrangement she had with Cole, leaving the country "voluntarily".

Javier Pedroza worked in a copy shop and made extra money by providing counterfeit immigration papers.

When Javier was killed, the authorities discovered her documents among his belongings, leading the immigration team to examine Claire's case more closely.

South Korean teenager Yong Kim is about to be naturalized with the rest of his family, but starts to hang out with a gang and ultimately participates in a convenience store robbery for his initiation.

Hamid happens to be at the same store and kills the other robbers but (due to his own guilt over his involvement in his sister's death) lets Yong Kim go free.

After the test, in private, the rabbi requires Kossef to bring his "wonderful" voice to temple and take lessons from him to eliminate deficiencies in his knowledge.

The site's consensus reads that: "Crossing Over is flagrant and heavy-handed about a situation that deserves more deliberate treatment, and joins its characters with coincidences that strain believability".