Eternos Indocumentados (2019)
1h 16m ¡ 3 podcast episodes about this movie
In July 2014, mainstream US media became flooded with images of what they termed âunaccompanied Central American children.â Most of these childrenâmany coming with their parentsâwere fleeing from the violent consequences of U.S. intervention in El Salvador, Guatemala, and Honduras. Once in the United States, they were detained in what migrants have come to label âhielerasâ (ice boxes) in makeshift detention centers around the country. Rather than providing asylum to these refugees, the Obama Administration used this âhumanitarian crisisâ to expand the previously defunct practice of family detention.


