United States immigration policy … on screen

Four years before Donald Trump arrived at the White House, two young immigrants without official papers intentionally sought to be detained by the police on the border with the United States in order to enter a private detention center in Florida and follow US immigration policy ” from inside”.

The result came in the form of an influential documentary called The Infiltrators (directed by Christina Eibar and Alex Rivera) that was shown on the US public channel PBS weeks before the US presidential elections scheduled for November 3, in which Trump hopes to be re-elected. He made stricter immigration regulations a mainstay of his policy.
In this context, Rivera asked: “What freedom, what authority and what dignity is given to immigrants in this country? This is one of the main themes of the film and one of the axes of this choice ”, stating that“ the issue of the rights of irregular migrants has never been at the forefront of developments as it is today ”.
The Infiltrators, which mixes documentary and other scenes in which the heroine recovers what they experienced in Broward Detention Center (Florida), the story of two members of the National Union of Young Immigrants, an activist group known as the Dreamers, who came to the United States United at a young age and were saturated with their traditions, but the conditions were not resolved yet.
Another work focused on the issue of immigration is Immigration Nation, a six-episode series available on the US streaming platform “Netflix” that delves into immigration police. The American filmmakers Christina Closio and Saul Schwartz obtained an exceptional permit that allowed them to follow the personnel of the United States Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) in their operations against irregular immigrants for a period of two and a half years.
The two directors told the “New York Times” that the commission asked them to postpone the broadcast until after the election and remove some strong scenes, such as those in which officers lie down to enter houses or receive arrest warrants there as well as the “secondary victims”, who are undocumented immigrants who have not been issued against you. Arrest provisions. But they were able to keep the deadline thanks to the precautionary measures contained in the agreement signed before filming, according to “Agence France-Presse”.
These two works are in addition to a series of films made about irregular migrants in recent years, such as the Living Udocumented series (Netflix) and the film Torn Apart: Separated at the Border (HBO).