at the sundance film festival. for all of us involved it felt like a dream. then a few weeks after that claudio had a routine check-in. again he had been in the country for 20 years and about seven years had been checking in with i.c.e. including two years under the trump administration without any incident. but near two weeks after the premier of the film when he went into an i.c.e. office in southern florida, they detained him. suddenly his lawyers didn t expect it. he didn t expect it. none of us did. and apparently officials told him orders came from higher up and so he was detained and all of us this dream turned into a nightmare. we rallied to try to stop his deportation. david duvernay, the film community, activists rallied. nothing we could do would stop the trump administration and simply a month later, they removed him from his home from his family and deported him. and a new chapter in this film began for us.
what his story reveals about a system that remains in dire need of repair. alex, chris stin na, claudio, thank you all for joining us. alex, i want to start with you. claudio was deported affidavit your film had premiered 2019 at sundance, you at the time had called it retaliation for claudio speaking out against the deportation system in the united states. the detention system in the united states i should say. take us back to the circumstances of his deportation. sure. thanks for having us. you know, we have been making this film. the film took ability seven years to make. claudio had been in the united states for 20 years by the time the film was the released. when the film was released, it won all the award it could win
activists and the film community and claudio, himself, we have been fighting to try to bring him back. this summer after two-an-a-half years you know our dreams were kind of finally dreams again and we were able with claudio and with his attorneys to bring him back through a mechanism called humanitarian parole. so claudio is back home with his family. he is one person. but we believe you know all of these families that through the trump era, especially that we have been following came through down to their mother s arms, fathers taken away from their families, they all deserve to be back. but this is at least a little bit of a start, the first step. one thing to add, even though claudio is free, which we are grateful for, he is still asking for deferred action. so his case is active. we do need to pressure the administration and i.c.e. to be able to help us or to help claudio s regulation status. claudio, what do you want to do now you are back in the united states? [ speaking for
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you have always been very clear this story is about a much bigger system. so you hear what happened to claudio. the financial toll this has taken, the insecurity of being september back to that whole country. what does it tell us more broadly about america s broken immigration system? you know, this is a very troublesome situation for all of us, especially for claudio as he was sharing. one of the things that we discovered with what happened now that he s a part of a pattern, where there is this i.c.e. retribution against people who speak out, undocumented people who are trying to tell us how better to reform the system we have, the immigration system we have, so what i m seeing is that there is