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Nevilledog

(50,687 posts)
Sat Aug 1, 2020, 11:21 AM Aug 2020

The Horrifying ICE Documentary Trump Doesn't Want You to See

https://www.thedailybeast.com/inside-netflixs-immigration-nation-the-horrifying-ice-documentary-trump-doesnt-want-you-to-see

n 2017, Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), in their infinite wisdom, granted a pair of filmmakers unprecedented behind-the-scenes access to their officers and facilities. And for nearly three years, Christina Clusiau and Shaul Schwarz captured the human toll of Trump’s zero tolerance immigration policy, which saw undocumented families ripped apart and placed in ruinous detention centers.

According to Clusiau and Schwarz, ICE—who were contractually allowed to review cuts of the series but to only request edits for privacy violations or factual errors—demanded that the series’ release be held until after the 2020 election, and that the request came from “all the way to the top,” reported The New York Times. Despite governmental pressure, the resulting 6-part docuseries, Immigration Nation, is hitting Netflix on Aug. 3.

And it may be the most devastating viewing experience of the year.

The action opens on April 9, 2018, three days after then Attorney General Jeff Sessions announced that federal agencies must “adopt immediately a zero-tolerance policy for all offenses” related to illegal entry into the U.S. We see ICE agents conduct a raid on a New York City apartment in the dead of night, refuse to show the mother a warrant, and take her husband away. We’re then transported inside ICE’s New York field office and witness firsthand the cruelty of the agents, who giggle while taking iPhone video of a man in detention as he shudders in fear and hits his head repeatedly against a wall; cheer the fact that they “got another one”; and casually eat fruit while staring at a detained man with a sheet over his head in a holding cell.

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The Horrifying ICE Documentary Trump Doesn't Want You to See (Original Post) Nevilledog Aug 2020 OP
Sounds incredibly important, but I'm not sure I have it in me to watch this right now... hlthe2b Aug 2020 #1
So much daily horror. It is overwhelming. Nevilledog Aug 2020 #2

hlthe2b

(101,730 posts)
1. Sounds incredibly important, but I'm not sure I have it in me to watch this right now...
Sat Aug 1, 2020, 11:24 AM
Aug 2020

My tolerance for Trump horror is pretty saturated and COVID-19 alone is surpassing that.

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