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.
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