Immigration Nation provides a damning indictment of the labyrinth systems that make ICE so powerful, and a wrenching examination of the human cost its policies have wrought.
It's a strictly observational series, so there are no explanatory titles or voiceovers. But the filmmakers do know how to juxtapose their material in ways that make unmistakable points.
Immigration Nation is most powerful-and seems most likely to change minds in our politically polarized present-when it profiles the immigrants themselves, all of them more memorable than anyone from ICE.
Christina Clusiau and Shaul Schwarz, have been granted access other filmmakers could only dream of. Not many images are ever released from inside ICE detention centers, but Clusiau and Schwarz talk to the detainees.
