Targeting El Paso (full documentary)
19 Jul 2022
How El Paso, Texas, became the Trump administration’s immigration policy testing ground and then the target of a white supremacist. (Aired 2020)
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From producer Marcela Gaviria, correspondent Martin Smith and their team, the 2020 documentary “Targeting El Paso” investigated how the border city that has been called the Ellis Island of the Southwest became a testing ground for some of former President Donald Trump’s most controversial immigration policies, a subject of his anti-immigrant rhetoric, the site of a surge of migrant families crossing the U.S.–Mexico border — and, on Aug. 3, 2019, the target of a deadly attack by a white supremacist.
Interviews with current and former immigration officials, U.S. Border Patrol agents, migrants and advocates tell the inside story from the epicenter of the border crisis.
Explore additional reporting on "Targeting El Paso" on our website: https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/frontline/film/targeting-el-paso/
#Documentary #ElPaso #Immigration #FamilySeparation
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CHAPTERS:
Prologue - 00:00
The 2019 El Paso Shooting - 00:35
President Trump’s Immigration Rhetoric - 03:05
Testing Family Separation in El Paso, Texas - 11:29
Vigilantes at the U.S.–Mexico Border - 17:50
Conditions in Immigration Holding Facilities - 25:35
The “Remain in Mexico” Policy - 30:40
Migrant Children in Detention “Were Traumatized” - 37:26
Trump’s Visit to El Paso - 49:57
Credits - 51:55
This journalism is made possible by viewers like you. Support your local PBS station here: http://www.pbs.org/donate.
From producer Marcela Gaviria, correspondent Martin Smith and their team, the 2020 documentary “Targeting El Paso” investigated how the border city that has been called the Ellis Island of the Southwest became a testing ground for some of former President Donald Trump’s most controversial immigration policies, a subject of his anti-immigrant rhetoric, the site of a surge of migrant families crossing the U.S.–Mexico border — and, on Aug. 3, 2019, the target of a deadly attack by a white supremacist.
Interviews with current and former immigration officials, U.S. Border Patrol agents, migrants and advocates tell the inside story from the epicenter of the border crisis.
Explore additional reporting on "Targeting El Paso" on our website: https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/frontline/film/targeting-el-paso/
#Documentary #ElPaso #Immigration #FamilySeparation
Subscribe on YouTube: http://bit.ly/1BycsJW
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/frontlinepbs
Twitter: https://twitter.com/frontlinepbs
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/frontline
FRONTLINE is produced at GBH in Boston and is broadcast nationwide on PBS. Funding for FRONTLINE is provided through the support of PBS viewers and by the Corporation for Public Broadcasting. Additional funding is provided by the Abrams Foundation; the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation; Park Foundation; the Heising-Simons Foundation; and the FRONTLINE Journalism Fund with major support from Jon and Jo Ann Hagler on behalf of the Jon L. Hagler Foundation, and additional support from Koo and Patricia Yuen.
CHAPTERS:
Prologue - 00:00
The 2019 El Paso Shooting - 00:35
President Trump’s Immigration Rhetoric - 03:05
Testing Family Separation in El Paso, Texas - 11:29
Vigilantes at the U.S.–Mexico Border - 17:50
Conditions in Immigration Holding Facilities - 25:35
The “Remain in Mexico” Policy - 30:40
Migrant Children in Detention “Were Traumatized” - 37:26
Trump’s Visit to El Paso - 49:57
Credits - 51:55
