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For 25 cents a minute i was able to call in and see what was happening inside. i reported a series of stories for the web and the "new york times" magazine. it struck me immediately that what i was seeing, i was entering into the visual world of this detention center. so i began the process, using hundreds of hours of footage that i gathered from these webcams streaming out of the detention center to put together and direct this film "the facility", which tells the story of the first year of the...

Director of "the facility", and investigative reporter at pro publica, and nilson, who has continued his advocacy for immigrants, founding the i.c.e. breakers. what did it take to tell this story? >> you know, when the pandemic began and our whole world was kind of turned on its head i tried to report what was happening in immigration and customs enforcement detention centers the and i wanted to figure out what was happening inside and what life was like for people inside. so i began making call...

Of them. irwin county detention center is no longer holding i.c.e. detainees, and i think its really clear that one of the reasons for that is that people inside of this place were organized before, had been organizing for months and were able to call attention to abuses inside of this place. >> seth, monica, nilson, thank you so much for your time. president biden may have closed the facility in 2021, but what about the rest of his immigration agenda? thats next. e rest of his immigration agend...

>> nilson, i want to ask you about what is a remarkable moment you were able to catch on camera. an i.c.e. officer comes in to make an announcement to the unit about covid and you challenge what he has to say, take a listen. >> there is nobody infected in this facility. >> let me tell you something. my name is nilson. i put a lawsuit, okay, to this facility. both of the words in federal court on wednesday, and they declared that they have tested three people and one case positive. >> the people ...

Enforcement, about the lack of protection for coronavirus. >> we didnt have anything to sanitize with. we didnt have the proper ppe. the first case was, we dont have covid in the facility. [ speaking in foreign language ] >> women in that facility, migrant women, say an interest was performing procedures for which no medical condition existed. >> they said they were going to do surgery. i said nobody informed me that im going to do a surgery. all of a sudden i get up. thats when i knew they went...

Work for this facility until i.c.e. free us. [ speaking in foreign language ] >> nilson, how are you feeling about this? i mean, its reached this point, but also, you dont know what theyre going to do. >> i try to be strong. its really hard. there is so much going on outside. theyve been forgetting about us.

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A new documentary called “The Facility,'' uses footage from a pay-per-minute video call app inside the now-shuttered Irwin County Detention Center to chronicle the experiences of migrants in the early months of the pandemic. At the time, the positivity rate in federal detention centers was 50%. The film has been shortlisted for an academy award. NewsHour Weekend’s Ivette Feliciano reports.

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