Page 3 - The Facility News Today : Breaking News, Live Updates & Top Stories | Vimarsana

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 pandemic inside a detention center, a place not meant to be seen interest the outside. >> let's be ...

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 calls, using this video visitation app installed inside of the cellblocks of any i.c.e. detention center...

Of them. irwin county detention center is no longer holding i.c.e. detainees, and i think it's 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? that's next. e rest of his immigration agenda immigration agenda that's next. doctor before you begin an aspirin regimen. nothing like a weeke...

>> 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 responsible are nowhere to be found. they're all sitting at home somewhere barking orders, telling p...

Enforcement, about the lack of protection for coronavirus. >> we didn't have anything to sanitize with. we didn't have the proper ppe. the first case was, we don't 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 i'm going to do a surgery. all of a sudden i get up. that's when i knew they went through my bellybutton. i got three big holes. they never explained anything to me. and i neve...