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https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2020/aug/19/netflix-immigration-nation-ice-true-horror
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The six-part series embedded with Immigration and Customs Enforcement to
reveal the shocking banality of official cruelty.
The initial main draw of Immigration Nation, the six-part documentary
series on immigration enforcement under Trump released on Netflix this
month, was that US authorities did not want you to see it. After viewing
a final cut, US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (Ice), which had
allowed the film-makers, Christina Clusiau and Shaul Schwarz, to embed
with agents for over two years, attempted to intimidate the production
team into delaying the release. The agency threatened Clusiau and
Schwarz with lawsuits, according to a New York Times report, and to use
the “full weight” of the federal government to block publication of
certain Ice scenes usually invisible to the American public.
'It can be hard to keep hope': behind a shocking immigration docuseries
It didn’t work, and watching the six-hour series, it is clear why the
agency did not want the footage to become public. Immigration Nation,
more than any other documentary of the Trump administration’s
immigration crackdown, allows Ice agents and officials to explain their
perspective. And thus more than any other documentary, Immigration
Nation reveals how a government agency upholds and perpetuates evil.
Two-plus years of Cops-style embedment doesn’t glorify Ice agents, but
instead reveals the agency to be populated by, in some cases, callous
people who gloat over arrests; more often, affable people fulfilling
their small part of the contract as directed, with the
compartmentalization it requires.
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