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9 de Marzo, 2008

The 'Nice' ICE? [Van Nuys ICE Raid]

Categorized under Derechos Humanos , Política Estados Unidos | Tags: , , , , ,

THIS VIDEO of the ICE raid in Van Nuys, California was given to a few of us here on the Latino (-issues focused) side of the blogosphere with a little advance notice before it hits the rest of the webworld.

From amiga Anike:

Exactly one month ago ICE called the Coalition of Humane Immigrant Rights (CHIRLA) to announce that there would be a raid "somewhere" in Van Nuys, California, refusing to disclose the exact location. The call was supposedly an effort to follow "humanitarian" protocol yet what ensued was hardly humanitarian by anyone's imagination.

Video edited by Ian Mayberry and directed by Alberto Barboza.

Produced by Anike Tourse, Communications Coordinator Coalition for Humane Immigrant Rights of Los Angeles

[26 MB may take a few moments to load]

(Here's a smaller MPG version/iPhone version if that works for your machine.)

(Also, unless things change, in about one week The Unapologetic Mexican blog will host an exclusive interview with one of the people featured in this video. More details on that part later.

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Comentarios (10)


jvigil dijo:

GRVTR

Any other formats besides quick time??


nezua Author Profile Page dijo:

GRVTR

hey bro i've added an mpg, but i don't know if that will work for ya. sorry. i can't put it to YouTube, of course, i was only given this version and i'm sure they don't me doing that. why doesn't .mov work for ya? PCs can use quicktime...other issues?


M Author Profile Page dijo:

GRVTR

I couldn't open the QuickTime .mov file, either -- the application claimed the URL isn't valid; the .m4v one you linked works, though.


nezua Author Profile Page dijo:

GRVTR

thank you...i see now. odd. before it worked. i'll try something else.


nezua Author Profile Page dijo:

GRVTR

i'll have to export it in other forms. that will take a little while. i'll adjust post.


chicano2nd dijo:

GRVTR

Formats? What the 3*#K? ¡Lineas y puntos!


noemi dijo:

GRVTR

is there a longer version? it doesn't really explain what went on, unless it didn't load all the way for me.


nezua Author Profile Page dijo:

GRVTR

well, i dont know if yours loaded all the way, but i have to admit that i felt it was a little shy on exposition...or on the raid itself. something. i felt a bit left out of some info. but i'm a filmmaker and picky, so i wasn't sure if it was just me.

what kinds of things did you find yourself wanting to know more about? if i do the interview, it might help to hear this.


R. Mildred dijo:

GRVTR

well, i dont know if yours loaded all the way, but i have to admit that i felt it was a little shy on exposition...or on the raid itself. something.

Yeah it seemed a little light on things you would have thought would have been the center of a film about a particular raid and heavy on the interviews and reaction shots - but whether that's a bad thing or what depends on the makers' intent really, it's quite powerful anyway.

I'm a bit confused about the RoboAnklet though (those things always seem to look like the explodey necklaces that popup now and again in various cyberpunk movies, it's like the designer had just finished watching cyber city oedo and felt that this would be a suitably terrifying thing to stick on the ankles of vile miscreants and criminals such as middle aged working mothers) bascially; what the hell did they stick that on her for exactly? Were they afraid she was going to leave the country or something?

but more serious qustions that can't be answered with google:

1) Who are the people running the factories? Becuase one of the women interviewed there mentioned that it was almost a quesiton of which was worse; the supervisors at the factory or the detention centers, and the remarkable invisibleness of the people running these things stinks of shenanigans.

2) to follow on, does ICE deal at all with those people rather than just targetting the workers?

3) How long was ICE keeping folks locked up, what access to legal aid and stuff did they allow?

4) beatings and mistreatment?

5) what did the factory make?

6) how is the local community, hispanic, latin@ and otherwise, reacting to the raids? for instance we see one nice white lady near the end there...

That's all I got.

(my 98 OS machine struggled with quicktime actually, though someone bought me a macmini a while ago so I'm fine, but not all PCs handle quicktime all that well)


noemi dijo:

GRVTR

The m4v fully loaded for me, the other one had not. I guess some unanswered questions echo what r. mildred said. Why are they using ankle bracelets? Has ICE ever done this (to my knowledge they haven't). Can they leave their houses, how can they seek legal help if they can't leave their house? What are they supposed to do about food? Do they have deportation orders? How can they leave to go to the immigration hearing with these on? It doesn't seem very humanitarian, but we are talking about ICE here. Also one of the lady's mentions the intimidation at work, if there were abuses at work-is it being investigated? It seems like a teaser to a longer piece.

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