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How Trump’s Deportation Campaign Is Reshaping Small Town America
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This video provides an in-depth look at the U.S. immigration detention system through the lens of the Torrance County Detention Facility in Estancia, New Mexico. By watching, you will explore the complex intersection of federal policy, corporate involvement, and the economic dependence of small towns on detention centers. The narrative highlights the humanitarian concerns faced by detainees while detailing the administrative challenges of the legal process, such as language barriers and lack of legal representation. This video is an excellent resource for expanding your vocabulary related to government, policy, human rights, and the American justice system.
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Good morning, judge.
Yes, I can hear you.
I beg you to give me a chance to speak.
My father was transferred to there
and I was not given the opportunity to deal with a lawyer.
Carol Barrios is a US citizen who lives
outside Miami, Florida.
She was expecting her father to land at the Miami airport
but he never made it to her.
And instead she got a phone call a few days later
that he was in an ICE detention facility.
Please, I, I beg you to allow me the right
to due process and allow me the right to speak.
As an American citizen,
I myself have that right.
This was the start of
what would be a very lengthy stay in ICE detention.
And for Carol, it was the start of this journey of trying
to figure out where her father was, when he was being
moved to the next facility.
What's happening now in the United States is
beyond our control.
Federal government has say so over that,
but we do have control here.
Towns like Estancia, New Mexico, small towns that a lot
of people haven't even heard of, have become pretty focal
to the administration's goal
of carrying out this massive immigration crackdown.
The prison with a federal contract is the
lifeblood for the town of Estancia.
Two thirds of our gross receipts tax comes from the prison
being opened with the federal contract.
It's a necessary evil. It is what it is. It, it's the
system we have.
Then the deeper you get into it
and you see what kind
of crazy money is going into something like this
and you realize that, oh,
this is also part of corporate America.
You know that they're making money too.
They're just doing it with people.
It is really hard when you're trying to make sure
that a town or a county doesn't become bankrupt.
But ultimately it benefits everyone when a county is not
dependent on human suffering to survive.
This person said they were there for 32 days.
They went out and saw the sun
probably only 13 hours in total.
The food is poor. They're not treated like a human.
What everyone feels here is fear and more fear.
So one of the things we wanted to do was get a sense of
what the conditions were like in some of these facilities.
We wrote some prompts.
What do you want the world to know about
what it's like in ICE detention?
And, can you describe how you feel right now?
One of the letters we got back was from Josė.
He says he was arrested on February 13th.
This is the most difficult experience of his life.
My dad.
Me and my dad connect a lot.
We have the same determination.
Even if the whole world is against you,
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Used to refer to the person or people that the speaker is addressing. It is the second-person pronoun used for both singular and plural subjects and objects.
People refers to a group of human beings or the general public. It is the standard plural form of the word 'person'.
To move your body or an object so that it faces a different direction. It also means to change the direction you are moving, such as when walking or driving.
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