Immigration Nation Episode 1: Installing Fear  /  Immigration and Customs Enforcement Video “Think you know ICE?”

 

 

Immigration Nation Episode 1: Installing Fear

• Ice is sweeping neighborhoods because of Trumps new act where illegal immigrants can be detained is warrant is made
  • They don’t have to commit a crime no more
  • As well as collaterals where illegal is detained because their we in the area of the illegal migrant originally intended to be caught
  • A event in the story that shows discrepancy between  supervisors and field agents where field agents are showing empathy towards illegal residents and some don’t even take collaterals but supervisors push for numbers and mandate to get more than 1 per operation
• half a million undocumented
• half a million permanent residents ” All a part of this life blood in this city”
• Term Good Game is used when illegal resident was caught
• In the episode Ice is shown in 2 different setting
  • The supervisors who stay in the base
  • And The police officers who are in the field
• Ice fugitive operations are deportations officers tasked with locating, arresting, and removing fugitive aliens
• In 2003 only 8 units now there are 129 units
• Domestic terrorist is what people call them
• Rule of law is broken when you are detaining people who are doing daily activities like doctors’ appointments and going to school
  • POV of Becca Heller a human rights lawyer
• Empathy and human emotion is lost and hindered with the new rule of picking up as many illegal migrants as they can
  • Names and faces get jumbled and politics take place where human emotions
  • Families being ripped apart of their families after decades have to forever leave their families behind not seeing them again
    • 2300 kids are ripped apart from their families all alone with the operations
  • Families are broken with these new acts and people are getting sent back to their countries they escaped form
  • ICE is sending people back without care of what happens to them once they cross
• ICE mentality that the law is the law and that they just follow what is being told gives a robotic and no emotion tone where moments of sadness that the interviews with the men getting deported sheds tears in the views eyes
• The Netflix episode uses movie like cinematics and transitions to amplify the dark and gloomy setting that’s upon what we don’t see every day.
  • With dramatic music, slow motion usage, camera angles, close ups and sound effects of chains and door knocking it gives a personal feel and experience on what an ICE officer see and goes through
    • Their emotions and how it effects them as a person a job that they applied for

 

The Netflix episode Immigration Nation – Installing Fear gives us a cinematic and dramatic view on ICE and what they do. We usually see the after of what ICE does or hear stories on the news or media but this documentary gives us a combination of documentary style interviews, cinematic movie like camera angles, enhanced sound effects, etc. With a look in to ICE culture inside their base where they are usually isolated from the process of removing illegals all they look for is numbers and doing the “right” thing. The definition of justice is lost and clouded in the world of ICE. Where is the line between criminal and human, the treatment and wording of Ice officials is disgusting treating them as numbers and as things. Usually justified by their own definition of right because it’s the “law” so it has to be right. The close interactions we see with families like for example Geronimo where we see him getting taken from his daughter and wife and have last goodbyes. Geronimo and his family doesn’t know why they are being taken away and ICE doesn’t know how to reply as to why they are taking him. This interaction shows the lost touch politics has to human emotion and to people who live in their jurisdictions.

Question – Should there be another step between when Ice captures illegal migrants and deportation? Should there be programs where illegal migrants can help back their community for residency?

Quote – ” I think when you punish people for showing up to their court dates or for going to the hospital or for reporting domestic violence you really break apart the rule of law but the purpose of ICE is to enforce the rule of law you’re getting some e really preserve outcomes”

 

 

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

• Super hero and motivating music
• All job aspects are being shown mostly jobs that are not in the field showing them taking people
• Jobs are focused on criminal activities and not removing people.
• Protecting children from sex crimes
• Pursuing human tights violating
• Cooperating border enforcements
• Protecting cultural properties
• Investigating cybercrime activities
• Victim identification
• Investigating smuggling and human trafficking
• Enforcing intellectual property

Question – How can ICE help clear up the line between crime and law with human rights and empathy?

ICE is portrayed drastically different in this short clip compared to the Netflix episode. With upbeat and motivating music and clips of different job requirements ICE has it gives a hopeful approach to the video like they actually fixing something.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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