Immigration Nation
Series Details & Credits
| Netflix | Release Date: August 3, 2020 |
Summary:
The six-part documentary series about America's current immigration system directed by Christina Clusiau and Shaul Schwarz features candid interviews with agents of Immigrations and Customs Enforcement (ICE), Border Patrol, Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) and detainees as well as footage of raids and the detentions centers.
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Movie/Mini-Series, Documentary
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Aug 3, 2020
Season 1 Review:
This deep access, and the compelling narrative the filmmakers weave out of their footage, makes Immigration Nation the most important documentary Netflix has fronted since Ava DuVernay’s 13TH. Even if it doesn’t convince you that ICE should be abolished, I guarantee you’ll be unsettled watching the agency’s response.
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Jul 31, 2020
Aug 3, 2020
Season 1 Review:
The filmmakers capture ICE as it is ramping up its operations in response to Trump’s election, incisively exploring how Trump’s rhetoric has translated into nuts-and-bolts policy. ... Immigration Nation also tells human stories, where the filmmakers sit down with migrants to hear their particular saga of suffering. Each is like a vortex, lengthening into a dimension of unfathomable personal grief.
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Aug 3, 2020
Season 1 Review:
All six hours of their docuseries overflow with information, from the personal stories of detainees—people like Josué, who migrated with his 3-year-old son, only to be separated by border patrol agents in El Paso, Texas—to data about the exponential growth of ICE and the history of immigration as a wedge issue in politics.
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Jan 14, 2021
Aug 3, 2020
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Oct 5, 2020
Season 1 Review:
As taxing to watch as it is, one can appreciate the quality and purposeful vision of the craftsmanship. While there are static interviews, a large portion of the footage was capture as tense situations unfolded. That perpetual immediacy, both with victims and executioners, compels us to grasp the gravity of this moral problem as a whole.
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Aug 29, 2020
This was a brilliant report on how for profit prisons drive immigration policy, and how communities are banding together to protect its members, whether here illegally or not. the government representatives really come across as inhuman sociopaths.
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Sep 15, 2020
This show detailed all of the ways in which ICE operates and shows the effect it is having on families and the deaths of thousands at our border and in our country.
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