For decades, northwest Aurora has been home to a large immigrant detention facility formally known as the Aurora Contract Detention Facility. Run by private prison company GEO Group through a contract with Immigration and Customs Enforcement, the detention center holds a wide range of immigrant detainees, including asylum seekers, undocumented immigrants with and without criminal convictions, and documented immigrants who are potentially subject to deportation because of criminal convictions.
The movie, titled "The Facility," highlights the pain experienced by families who lose a loved one to immigrant detention, which often leads to deportation. "I was just really overwhelmed by the stories I was hearing," says Flood, who lived in the encampment with families whose husbands, fathers and sons were detained across the street at the detention facility.