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THEY’RE HERE (NYFF 2026) – Review by Diane Carson

September 22, 2026September 23, 2026 Diane Carson abductions, Alex Pretti, documentary, government-sponsored deportation, ICE, laura poitras, Minneapolis, New, New York Film Festival, NYFF 2026, Rachel Lauren Mueller, Rénee Nicole Good, They’re Here

Unfolding in the style of horror film, which it is, directors Laura Poitras’ and Rachel Lauren Mueller’s They’re Here documents ICE’s illegal, combative activity in Minneapolis, Minnesota, this past winter. Immediately mimicking the menacing, stalking point-of-view shots that evoke anxiety in that genre of films, the association is apt given ICE’s threatening, frightening, even terrorizing men, women, and children. In a revealing, informative 25 minutes, They’re Here presents the array of tactics used by ICE agents in military uniforms and, almost universally, with partial masks covering their faces, thereby concealing their identity.

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SPLIT AT THE ROOT – Review by Marilyn Ferdinand

February 13, 2023February 19, 2023 Marilyn Ferdinand (Archived Contributor) documemtaies, Francisco Collazo, ICE, Immigrant Families Together (IFT), Julie Schwietert Collazo, linda goldstein knowlton, Split at the Root, U.S./Mexico border

Appalled by the separations imposed on families seeking asylum, New York-based social worker Julie Schwietert Collazo and her husband Francisco—himself an immigrant—decided to take action by raising money to pay the bond of one woman so that she could be released and reunited with her children. Their GoFundMe effort far exceeded expectations, and what was intended to help just one family turned into Immigrant Families Together (IFT), a nonprofit organization dedicated to reuniting and supporting immigrant families separated at the U.S./Mexico border.