| Trump's DHS Tried to Block Netflix From Airing "Immigration Nation" Until After the Election |
| Written by <a href="index.php?option=com_comprofiler&task=userProfile&user=52548"><span class="small">Caitlin Dickerson, The New York Times</span></a> |
| Friday, 24 July 2020 08:32 |
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Dickerson writes: "In early 2017, as Immigration and Customs Enforcement prepared to carry out the hard-line agenda on which President Trump had campaigned, agency leaders jumped at the chance to let two filmmakers give a behind-the-scenes look at the process."
Trump's DHS Tried to Block Netflix From Airing "Immigration Nation" Until After the Election24 July 20
But as the documentary neared completion in recent months, the administration fought mightily to keep it from being released until after the 2020 election. After granting rare access to parts of the country’s powerful immigration enforcement machinery that are usually invisible to the public, administration officials threatened legal action and sought to block parts of it from seeing the light of day. Some of the contentious scenes include ICE officers lying to immigrants to gain access to their homes and mocking them after taking them into custody. One shows an officer illegally picking the lock to an apartment building during a raid. |
n early 2017, as Immigration and Customs Enforcement prepared to carry out the hard-line agenda on which President Trump had campaigned, agency leaders jumped at the chance to let two filmmakers give a behind-the-scenes look at the process.