Florida, salary - dollar per day A typical "Sandens" film (as it should be, with a lot of propaganda from the Democratic Party), telling about the problems of immigrants in the United States.
The action comes at the end of Obama's first term. The viewer’s attention is drawn to private detention centers for illegal immigrants, where people wait for months and years for their fate. This is usually deportation, and it’s rare to be allowed to stay in the United States. The film is shot in a semi-documentary manner as a story of young immigrant activists about how they managed to prevent deportation for several poor people who ended up in such a prison using various tricks.
I was surprised to learn that an illegal child can safely attend an American school, and after graduating from it, suddenly they can seriously decide to be deported to Iran or Honduras, where he last visited at the age of three.
Curiously, Obama’s uncle was once threatened with deportation, but he was lucky to stay in the States. It would seem that the president should be aware of all these immigrant issues so close to his family. But in the film, a congressman from the state where the prison is located suddenly declares that activists are hearing for the first time about what is happening in these centers - and there someone has been waiting for their verdict for three years. It is as if such a system of private prisons only appeared yesterday, and does not originate in the days of Reagan.
Growing up children of illegal immigrants as the main theme of the film is only the tip of the iceberg. It is much more interesting to speculate about the billion-dollar industry of private prisons, which benefit from the fact that the inmate stays with them longer. But that's not in the movie. The main character of the film here gets his already legal job, for which he is paid a dollar (!) a day. It turns out that such essentially slave labor is a common thing in such institutions.
And, of course, the behavior of prisoners who are friendly and constantly play chess is pleasing. According to statistics, violations of discipline in private prisons occur more often than in public. The main villains here decided to make the employees of these prisons - although in fact, they are just fed by the system private individuals who took state orders from the federal authorities - the same Obama, by the way. And it looks as if activists are fighting against the shortcomings of the system, enlisting the support of the Democratic Party.
And one man is released - he directly runs out of the center and runs, runs, until he realizes that the terrain around is some unfamiliar. The final chord is 2016, the end of Obama's second term. The same man goes to immigration to see if he will be allowed to stay in the States for another year. Well, welcome to USA, the billion-dollar prison industry needs you very much.
3 out of 10
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