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Center in georgia. during the first weeks of the pandemic. >> how's everybody doing? how you thinking about what's happening out here? this coronavirus thing. >> everybody is here under a lot of stress. we see what's happening outside. and how fast it's moving. once it gets in here we're all at risk. >> the facility airs in a few minutes. at 2:00 p.m. eastern. part of the holiday marathon. the director of the film is joining me now. congratulations. you have accolades coming at you. the film the facility exposes from the inside the experiences and treatments of immigrants in this ice facility....

That kind of video access. in fact, you know, in a way, the pandemic and the sort of -- this move by all of us to start using video communication tools, it made it possible for me to get inside of an i.c.e. facility that i probably never would have been able to get into otherwise. the detention center at one point, and i wrote about this in "the new york times" magazine story that i published last year, did suffer my access to the video app and some of the people inside lost access to the tablets that they used to have these conversations. i was able to sign back up and sign back in and contin...

Proceeding through her asylum case. nilson is waiting for a green card. he's married to a u.s. citizen. he has very clear claims to be able to stay here. he probably was never going to be deported, actually. he was probably going to win his case, but because i.c.e. had the discretion to hold him at the time, they had a sort of policy, as a policy matter, were holding anybody that they could, and so he stayed in detention for close to a year, actually, while he was fighting his case. and through this film, "the facility," i really tried to bring people inside, because for most of the pandemic, ...

Reunions with their loved ones outside an ice detention center in louisiana. olena seeing her fiance, max, for the first time since fleeing ukraine and crossing the southern border. >> nobody was expecting them to be in an jail for 18 days. >> reporter: now max lives here. she came to apply for asylum and was taken into custody by border patrol. >> the fakt that we couldn't communicate, they couldn't hear anything from us. that was the hardest thing. >> reporter: she said during her time inside this ice facility, about 100 russian and ukrainian women came through and she says many are still in...

He's waiting for a green card. he's married to a u.s. citizen. he probably was never going to be deported, actually. he was probably going to win his case. but because ice had the discretion to hold him at the time, they as a policy matter were holding anybody they could. so he stayed in detention for close to a year actually while he was fighting his case. and through this film, the facility, i really tried to bring people inside because for most of the pandemic, for the beginning of the pandemic, the early months of the pandemic, i sort of attached myself to this computer screen in order to ...