groupwork...?!

I have never been a fan of doing group projects because most of the time someone in the group ends up being the one stuck with the dirty, last minute work. I am also very stubborn and like group projects to go the way that I envision them but they don't necessarily go that way and instead of feeling proud or even relieved when the project is done, I usually end up feeling frustrated and concerned about the grade.
For this project, we are focusing on the problems that undocumented immigrant students face living and attending public schools in the US. Our group mostly agreed that we wanted to do a project about something slightly more gritty and possibly taboo because it would be more exciting and possibly more engaging too. We started off with subjects like STDs but decided that it would be better to take a local topic that information was much less accessible to people living in Madison. It is so easy to find information on STDs and there are probably many other projects that have been done on the topic. By focusing on a minority group in the US, we will raise awareness about a subject that is socially heavy. The heaviness of our issue must be dealt with in the most objective way possible. We need to make it clear to our audiences that we are not attacking people who are causing legal problems for these students, but informing them of the issues the children themselves are facing and draw attention to the fact that there are people suffering from our issue.
One of the problems with our research was to pinpoint whether or not the students themselves are undocumented or not. From my experience talking to people I work with and from interviews, most of the students effected are not undocumented themselves as it is much more difficult to bring an entire undocumented family into the US without being noticed. This means that the children are born in the US and are therefore American citizens.
I think that by choosing to make a radio show with an interviewer is a good way to address both sides of the topic. The interviewer can pose questions that open a discussion and the group members can address the issues in an informative way without sounding biased. I think as long as responses are backed up with interviewed sources, credibility won't be questioned too much and our project will not be subject to as much criticism.