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marco werman. hello i'm barbara sarah and you're watching a special edition of the listening post rising migration and the political responses to it have been defining features of the past decade stories of refugees tightening border controls political battles over immigration policy have all been in the headlines with conflicts ongoing around the world the impact of climate change the printing and the fallout from the global financial crisis still lingering the pressures driving people to move are only becoming greater in this episode we are shining a spotlight on the role that journalism has played in shaping what the public and policymakers know about migration we will be interviewing the filmmaker matthew a cell who was reported on migrant flows around the world will be looking at a genre of reality t.v. film that borders and checkpoints but we're starting the show with a report from the united states before president from took office only the best

informed media junkies might have known that ice stands for the immigration and customs enforcement agency but the trump administration's hardline immigration policies have changed all that multiplying the number of ice arrests in homes and workplaces however the role the media play in this particular story goes well beyond just covering it over the past year n.g.o.s and legal advocacy organizations have worked with some media outlets to track cases of enforcement abuse and they train communities to use their own media tools to document wrongdoing the listening posts flow phillips now from texas well some of the media practices and stories that have come out of those collaboration's. known as ice raids seemingly indiscriminate often undercover operations to root out

illegal immigrants and they happen across the u.s. day in day out. like the case of palomar alice luna a mother taken in front of her screaming children on a southern california street in march twenty eighth. i'm a can and cannot arrest didn't work in september twenty seventh even though agents had no probable cause or warrant. a father of four apprehended in february twenty seventh teen while dropping his daughter at school. just three examples of thousands we know about these three because they were caught on camera eyewitness footage has been so crucial in exposing isis manipulative tactics ramiele of alec and solace was arrested by two ice agents who were an unmarked vehicles wearing jackets that only said police there's a reason why they don't identify themselves they're trying to use manipulative

tactics to get information from immigrants or people who they've racially profiled in order to arrest and deport him this happened in february of two thousand and seventeen and it was really the first high profile case that really showed what the human price of ice is new enforcement what looked like. u.s. immigration and customs enforcement ice is not a new body it's current incarnation the largest investigative arm of the department of homeland security was part of a restructuring effort in the wake of nine eleven and it's not as though the obama administration didn't deport undocumented workers as many as twenty thousand a month by twenty sixteen but donald trump has gone further during his first week in office the president signed an executive order that rewrote the rules on who i should prioritize in its operations making virtually every undocumented immigrant in the country all ten point seven million fair game for arrest and deportation

whether they had a criminal record or not the former director of home publicly stated that the dave clark from crossing. over they should all of you in this country legally new committed a crime but enter this country you should be uncomfortable you should look over your shoulder and you need to be worried then i did something which last administration had not done the actually this and every single process discretion to do so. after handing deporting. anyone who comes to attention became the newborns what that's translated to on the street is folks who didn't have to anticipate the possibility of being arrested and deported now do you see an . increase in interest a lot of stories about the way immigration enforcement of false arrests cross country families separated deportations. stories about how i see racially

profiled people on the street picks up immigrants a routine court check ins uses contentious surveillance tactics and makes mass arrests some of the journalism does more extensive collaboration's between news organizations and advocacy groups groups that have done research and can show people a thing on t.v. we covered a project that was put together by the immigrant defense project the center for constitutional rights here in new york city tracked immigration raids and it showed a marked increase in operations targeting people with no criminal record so what we've seen under the trump administration is a huge increase in arrests all of these different colors correspond to different types of inforce an activity that was served. you know like a physical arrest or surveillance or use of force we have one hundred twenty eight cases observed here forty eight here a swatch kind of projects served for additional countability journalism the martial

project new york magazine collaboration was really interesting because it kind of was a mix of the two it was grounded in there are points of individual immigration enforcement actions and deportations and in new york in particular that's fascinating because seeing the mapping up here is what has actually happened is useful to immigrant new yorkers who can actually turn ambient buzz of rumors about what might be happening into a sense of what has actually happened and to navigate their own lives. abolish ice is the collective name given to a growing movement protesting ice is new mandate and that of its paws on the agency customs and border protection or c.b.p. . the movement was energized by the release of a new audio recording back in june twenty eighth with the sounds of children crying

out for that paris. and that has continued have a sense with the president's constant references to the quote threat of the migrant caravan to criminals just felt worse for trespassers but you know what about the water turn back now because you're not getting it there are beds to the golden a lot of traction in the mainstream she started filming and advocacy groups not just the media have suggestions on how to tell the story. and fit into a series of what shops open eyes by what they mcallen texas it's a city why only us mexican border given the spiking immigration enforcement in this particular family the group says it's essential to get people here with the tools and techniques needed to fill in the beds as they have. this program is a crash course in how video can help immigrant communities expose injustices

advocate for asylum seekers and defend against deportation it teaches people not just how to document ice and border patrol abuses but how to do it safely and ethically our training is focus on digital security issues so how to secure the content on your phone how to secure your communications your computer your social media we also focus on filming tactics what should you film what should choose film then go that it's often met one with both. the comic and the so now we're also seeing me sick and up with them oh nothing must be on. their head. but up with that . and then a really crucial component of our work is helping people think their strategies around what to do after you film how you save it and how you can impact whether or not it can be used as evidence in a court case or legal proceeding they pray record something i would just posted online but like now we know that there is specific procedures that i should take

before posting that. workshops like this one having a real impact on local communities but the power of sets in video is going well beyond having video footage having kind of a first person document is often the difference between something being a local story if not a national story we've seen in several cases things that were initially posted his facebook videos is becoming things that you know national outlets have said in their newsroom gee this is getting a lot of play on social media maybe we should write it up a video showing an illegal immigrant and high priced it's crap or off the street or try to reassure us which i don't want to attack the new technology has become extremely important in your legal else for ice. and also there's a law breaker. for the advocates of that unauthorized person he or she is not just a law breaker which is true but here she is also

a parent he or she is also a contributing member of the community he or she is also someone who has roots. they want to portray that aspect of the purse and these tools have become part of me that help. remember one hundred one days the mechanic in a arrested at work the entire incident was captured on the shop surveillance cameras footage that was used by his defense in court. and that video taken by romney gonzales his daughter on his cell phone footage went viral helping him out of immigrant detention six months later breaking the ice one video at a time. around the world migrants and refugees are on the move and to a large extent journalists and aid agencies are the main sometimes only sources of information on these migrant flows africa so it is

a journalist and filmmaker who's been on the speak for more than a decade he's tracked refugees escaping from wars the treatment of migrants at borders across europe and the lives of those left behind when loved ones leave or massacres so joins us now from chicago matthew i thank you for joining us here on the listening post and welcome you've spent years focusing on the issue of migrant flows spent a lot of time working in europe tell us a little bit about the coverage that you see and also how you think it's affected both policymakers and the european public as you said i've spent years covering this issue and i remember during the peak of the global refugee crisis in september two thousand and fifteen i remember one day where b.b.c. b.b.c. journalist was at munich train station in germany where train by train refugees were getting off and it was a big. story every global news agency was out there and news channels out there covering it and i remember the b.b.c. journalist was trying to find people to speak with you. but she couldn't find

anyone who spoke english and i don't mean to single out the b.b.c. or that journalist in particular but with the coverage at that time there were no there were very few journalists who actually spoke arabic who spoke dari who spoke the language of the refugees and migrants who were coming to europe and what that meant is that we weren't able to hear from the refugees and migrants in their own languages and it wasn't just b.b.c. al-jazeera english also had teams out there who didn't speak any of the languages and also editors and news outlets were contacting me and trying to commission stories focused only on english speaking refugees and migrants at that time months after the people like nigel for another anti immigrant or anti refugee voices in europe in the united states were able to stand in front of pictures of masses of migrants and refugees crossing into europe and use language like an

invasion on a breaking point the fact that we hadn't heard from so many of those people and they just remain these nameless story of this people in the months leading up to that not it wasn't the only reason that let him do that but it definitely contributed to it we should have heard more from the refugees and migrants in their own voices i guess if we had heard more directly from a lot of the refugees and migrants perhaps who would have known more about the reasons behind their migration do you think that that's a point that is so the mate as in we show pictures of the refugees of migrants arriving but perhaps not explain enough about why and they all have different reasons you know why they undertook the journey a lot of the people who are coming to europe or who have been coming to europe in recent years ago are from countries like iraq afghanistan yemen syria these are all countries that many of our governments have been directly involved in you know having troops on the. ground or selling these governments or different actors in those countries weapons so that they can fight against each other i think it's important to understand the root causes and i think it's been lacking part of the

reason definitely is that it takes a lot of time and resources to you know travel to west africa or to afghanistan or to south asia and kind of explore the root causes and for the past few years unfortunately especially in the english language media coverage has been dominated by breck's it and by donald trump and there's been very little coverage that really gets in depth at any other issue be it the migration crisis climate change ongoing conflict in syria and that's unfortunate your latest series is called the missing in india you made a decision not to focus on the people that migrated but focusing on their communities the families left behind why did you decide to do that and how important do you think it is to do that if we are going to see i guess a complete overview of the migration. of my father just passed away last month so i'm very aware of the pain that comes with you know the death of of

a loved one i cannot begin to imagine what it's like for people who have had loved ones and relatives disappear for years without knowing whether or not they're dead or alive. but sadly that is a reality for thousands of people around the world who do not know their status who do not know if their loved ones are you know alive or dead living in a foreign country or not. and that's why i think it was very important to tell those stories these are the people who have been hardest affected by this issue and i think just in general we could all benefit from having a little bit more. understanding a little bit more compassion injected into this debate and coverage of refugees and migrants because it's sorely been lacking in so much of the global media and that's what i was trying to do in the series the missing rustica cell thank you so much

for sharing your expertise and experience with us here on the listening post thank you thank you. they are images seen on screen more and more often border control officials are searching for the legal goods interrogating and deporting those the desirable all in the name of protecting the homeland and those pictures don't just end up on newscasts no border security shows are now a subject of reality t.v. producers say the programs provide an insight into the essential work of customs and immigration agencies but in the post nine eleven climate and in the context of a global refugee surge the format smacks of tabloid t.v. at its worst often exaggerating and sensationalizing the threats posed by those crossing the border for governments with law and order policies to sell these shows are like paid political advertising without the paid part for broadcasters it's t.v. made on the cheap never mind that those tuning in at home might be left without the

store to view of what really happens at their nation's borders the listening posts johannah hoose reports now on the danger is over border security t.v. . border force americans to keep. these up to. the public order. border security australia's front line immigration detainees are illegal workers who are deployed to on the receiving immigration screen and profound undesirable and unsuitable dogs to some of the border security t.v. .