The Documentary ICE Doesn’t Want You to See
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🗓️ 10 August 2020
⏱️ 18 minutes
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Summary
Immigrations and Customs Enforcement has been given a broad mandate to round up undocumented immigrants. The agency is infamously unwelcoming to journalists, but two filmmakers managed to get unprecedented access to its employees and detention facilities. Christina Clusiau and Shaul Schwarz discuss how they got this closeup look at the agency as it developed ever-harsher policies designed to deter immigrants. Schwarz tells Jonathan Blitzer, who covers immigration for the magazine, that “if [ICE] can make life difficult enough, if [it] can send these messages . . . that this is the hell you’re going to get, then [they’ll] make these people leave.”
The documentary, “Immigration Nation,” is available on Netflix.
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| 0:50.9 | On today's Politics and More podcast, the New Yorker's Jonathan Blitzer talks with |
| 0:55.8 | Christina Klajou and Shaul Schwartz, the directors of the new Netflix documentary series, |
| 1:01.6 | Immigration Nation. The series examines the role of ICE in enforcing U.S. immigration policy. |
| 1:08.5 | Clejot and Schwartz were given almost unprecedented access to ICE personnel and |
| 1:12.8 | facilities. Under the Trump administration, the federal law enforcement agency known as ICE, |
| 1:22.6 | immigration and customs enforcement, has been given a broad mandate to round up undocumented immigrants and with |
| 1:29.2 | very little accountability. We don't see much into the inner workings of ICE because journalists |
| 1:34.6 | just aren't given that much access. But the new documentary series on Netflix called |
| 1:43.4 | Immigration Nation is an exception to the rule. |
| 1:47.1 | Filmmakers were given access to ICE and its personnel for more than three years, which is just unprecedented. |
| 1:59.2 | The New York Times reported that ICE was so unhappy with the documentary that they tried to |
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