Film Club will be published twice a month on Mondays this spring.
“We Came Here Legally. ICE Locked Us Up Anyway.” is a 10-minute Times Opinion video that profiles three people who came to the United States legally, but who were nonetheless jailed by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE). Here is how the Opinion section introduces the video:
We heard it over and over on the campaign trail: Donald Trump’s promise of a crackdown on criminals and undocumented immigrants at a scale and breadth this country had never seen before. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, commonly known as ICE, has swept into American cities and is detaining more people than ever before.
However, 71 percent of those held in immigrant detention by the end of September did not have criminal convictions, according to the Migration Policy Institute, a think tank focused on immigration. Many law-abiding immigrants who followed the rules in their applications for visas, green cards or asylum are being taken into ICE detention centers.
In the Opinion Video above, meet three people who came to America legally, only to find themselves in ICE detention. They followed the rules — but it didn’t matter.
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What moments in this film stood out for you — and why?
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What messages, emotions or ideas will you take away from it?
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What do the stories from inside the ICE detention system reveal about the Trump administration’s immigration crackdowns — and America now?
Watch the film, and then tell us what you think in the comments.
To learn more about ICE detentions, read the recent Times article “Inside the Deportation Machine.”
Want more student-friendly videos and podcasts? Visit our Film and Podcast Club column.
Students 13 and older in the United States and Britain, and 16 and older elsewhere, are invited to comment. All comments are moderated by the Learning Network staff, but please keep in mind that once your comment is accepted, it will be made public.
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