Cutting Edge: Lost In Detention

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Cutting Edge: Lost In Detention

When Barack Obama took office in 2009, he promised a two-step approach to the issue of immigration: stricter enforcement would have to come first, followed by comprehensive immigration reform legislation. Now almost three years into his tenure, Obama has deported a record one million undocumented immigrants.

Lost in Detention looks at the human toll of Obama's immigration policy via the Garcia family of Illinois. In February last year, Roxana Garcia, an undocumented immigrant with five American-born children, was deported back to Mexico after being pulled over for a routine traffic violation. Her husband, Antonio, is now faced with a miserable choice: raise five children on his own, or send them to Mexico - a country they've never even visited.
Lost in Detention also looks at the systemic abuses in the fastest-growing incarceration system in the country: the 250 detention centres across the country that house detainees. Of particular interest is the Willacy Detention Centre in south Texas, a massive complex of Kevlar tents run by a private contractor.

One interviewee, 'Mary', explains how she was repeatedly subjected to sexual abuse by a guard at Willacy, and numerous other detainees reported similar patterns of abuse. Despite 900 complaints filed by detainees, a federal audit gave Willacy a grade of 'good'. (From the US, in English and Spanish) (Documentary) CC

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Duration (mins)	60
Date of broadcast	10/1/2012
Channel	SBS ONE
Rating	PG
Price:	AUD19.50 including GST

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