Response to

Immigration Nation Episode 1: Installing Fear

Immigration and Customs Enforcement Video “Think you know ICE?”

Immigration nation episode one “Installing Fear”, shows what is like to be an ICE officer; the job they do and how they do it. In this episode of this show we can see that many ICE officers say they’re only doing their job and making sure the law is being enforce. They claim they just follow directives and do what it’s supposed to be done, even though they know that a lot of the arrests and separations of family is morally wrong and should not be done. In this video we can see the ICE officers call themselves police officers to persuade people to open their homes, so they can arrest who they are looking for and any “collaterals” (people who enter united states illegally, but who was not being traced). I personally believe that this is misinformation, ethically and lawfully wrong.

In the video immigration and custom enforcement video, we can clearly see this is some type of campaign/propaganda created by ICE officials to attract and portray their unit as one that is protecting the nation from all sorts of crimes. We can noticed this clearly by the way they created the video, it kind of looks like you are about to watch an action movie. The music and images actually engaged you and pull you to continue to watching, officers are portrayed as strong and rightful man who are in fact protecting the country from all sorts of crimes that goes beyond just deporting illigal immigrants. In the images we can see arrest being conducted and they all seem to be conducted because the individual who is being arrested has done something illegal  or committed serious crimes. However this is not what we see in the “Installing Fear” episode, in there we can see people getting arrested in the conform of their home, in from of their families and for only coming into the country illegally.

Questions

Do you think ICE should be abolished?

who exactly controls ICE arrest policies?

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