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Your film is also, how you got your access. and in many ways, you made it clear during the film that you had to pay for the video access at times, to make sure we saw that. but explain how you met nilson? how you met andrea? how you got that access? >> sir. at the beginning of the pandemic, you, know my plans for reporting, we're sort of upended right? i had plans to go reports toys for the magazines i write for. and i was trying to figure out how i was gonna continue, as a print reporter, as this pandemic was a spreading to develop new stories, to cover the pandemic on the beats that i alread...

County detention center. >> hi, nilson. how are you? >> i am okay. i mean, you know. i haven't eaten for five days, today. nothing. we haven't drink any water also, taken any of my medications. when i get up, you know, i get dizzy. honestly, i am feeling weak. this is a very on humanitarian. and, i mean, we haven't committed no crime. we are not hurting anybody. we didn't behave aggressively in any way whatsoever. so, it's really hard to understand why they are treating us this way. >> [speaking foreign language] >> [speaking foreign language]

Seth, what was interesting about your film is also how you got your access. and in many ways, you made it clear during the film that you had to pay for the video access at times, you made sure we saw that. but explain how you met nilson and andrea, how you got that access. >> sure. so, at the beginning of the pandemic, you know, my plans for reporting were sort of upended, right? i had plans to go report stories for magazines that i write for, and i was trying to figure out how i was going to continue as a print reporter as this pandemic was spreading to develop news stories to cover the pande...

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...

Trump administration that nearly anybody who could be detained would be detained, so nilson had been pulled over for a driving violation and was locked up in i.c.e. detention after an arrest following the driving violation. andrea had come to los angeles from colombia by plane with a tourist visa, intended to enter the country, but when officials at the airport asked her if she feared returning to her country, she was detained and treated as an arriving -- as an arriving asylum seeker and under the trump administration, arriving asylum seekers were summarily detained. she was held for nearly t...