Documentary Pries Open the Door To Immigrant Detention Centers

In Maria Hinojosa’s documentary, “Lost in Detention,” which will air tonight on PBS’ “Frontline,” a father of three sits down with the journalist who asks him how he has handled his wife’s deportation. She was removed from the U.S. after she was pulled over for a traffic violation.

“I haven’t handled it,” he said. “It handled me.”

In many ways the immigration enforcement system is so overwhelming and so rogue that it handles all it touches. Making sense of what’s happening, and of the damage the system inflicts, is no easy task.

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