Torn Apart
IF YOU’VE NOT SEEN IT around yet, I suggest you check out the new series by Colorlines called “Torn Apart.” Investigating the effects of deportation on families of color, their reporters travel to Jamaica and connect stories that span two countries and illustrate why keeping a national soul means swiftly enacting reform.
A NEW WEB-EXCLUSIVE SERIES ON THE EFFECTS OF DEPORTATION on families (of color) and the people who make up those families here in our nation and in the nations to where they are deported is called Torn Apart, by Colorlines. It’s pretty strong stuff.
I like it because it draws clearly and plainly the effects of deportation and you begin to peek around the corner, or I should say, over the border. To these lands utterly foreign, overall, to the people being flown and dumped there. You see how their families miss them here, how often the phone calls home begin to grow less and less…over there struggling for survival, over here, ending up in homeless shelters. Deportees criminalized in two lands, daily errands to take out trash and go to work shattered by exile. No second chance, no appeal. Not even for 20 years.
Again, for what? How does it make a nation safer, you wonder. To multiply pain. It’s just bad math, let alone the morality of it all….
Posted in Borders, Featured, Filmmaking/Video, Human Rights, ICE, Immigration, Justice
colorlines is awesome. We carried it in the bookstore I worked in, and one story in there moved me from the Sept/Oct 2008 issue, the Accidental American.
This deportation series is really heartbreaking as well. I’m glad to know more details about what’s really going on, though, thanks for telling about it.
my pleasure.