“Line in the Sand” and ‘Treason” examine stark moral questions in the handling of the U.S./Mexico border.
The documentaries reveal the agents overseeing the border and the lives affected by illegal immigration.
“Line in the Sand’s” morality concerns the hearts and minds of Customs and Border Patrol (CPB) agents. Their work, not surprisingly, consists of identifying, detaining, recording, housing and releasing human beings in accordance with orders from higher-ups.
What might be surprising are the ethical conundrums that their job puts on them and their claims of being hamstrung by agency policy.
What jumps off the screen is how torn officers are about orders from federal administrators. The conflict of conscience has reached the point that agents agree to be interviewed on camera despite serious career, legal and personal risks that entails.
That is the titular “line in the sand,” in addition to the physical border along the far southwest lands.
It’s not initially clear why CPB requires employees to keep tight-lipped secrecy, but the answers become salient as the documentary proceeds.
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Directed by James O’Keefe and released on the Tucker Carlson Network (TCN), “Line in the Sand” interviews outspoken agents like Aaron Vecky. He says their professional consequences must come second to stopping human trafficking.
Footage of detainee facilities and releases blends with interviews raising further questions. How long have agents been pressured to look the other way while traffickers appear to exploit the CPB and its behavior from the head down?
The interviews explain why human trafficking shouldn’t be severed from border coverage.
If O’Keefe’s undercover reporting gathered the information seen in “Sand,” that method isn’t featured prominently on screen. This makes the film more powerful.
A moral line must be stood against boldly, and not quietly and furtively crossed.
Viewers come away wondering why inhumane conditions for detaining minors and releasing them to unknown and unverified people in the U.S. continue. Where does illicit trafficking end and the US administration begin?
“Treason” covers similar material, zeroing in on illegal immigration’s daily effects on citizens, especially the criminal elements slipping across the border.
Directed by blogger, author and 24-year Customs journeyman JJ Carrell, the documentary asks if the negative impact on Americans hasn’t compelled officials to change policies by now, then what possibility exists other than that the officials’ intents are antithetical to the republic?
The Chicago scenes are among the powerful in “Treason.” Locals are losing neighborhoods like the O Block in Englewood after receiving thousands of people from the border.
Chicago’s poor neighborhoods routinely grab national headlines, but they’re home to Americans who study, raise families, visit relatives and friends and work to improve their lives.
Foreigners arrive in huge numbers and receive free housing and other resources, The stories of crushed opportunities for Americans are heart-rending.
“Treason” interviews faith leaders like Pastor Brooks and community members who make these areas home. Their policy viewpoints have been untold.
Until now.
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Carrell challenges any American to “find one thing” that isn’t true in the documentary during an interview for HiT. He asks us to follow the evidence of surging narcotics addictions, overdoses and devastation.
The film’s message is clear: It’s hard to reach any other conclusion than a “strategic intent of treason.”
“We turn our cameras north from the border. Ninety-four executive orders on Day One of this administration were issued on the border. We’ve had at least a 400 percent increase in crossings, 20,000 or more per day for four years, including mercenary combatants. 50 million are illegally in our country.
“You’ll say ‘Oh my God.’ No nation has survived this. Name one.’ The awakening of our country is so energized, I don’t even need to hire advertising [for the documentary],” Carrell said.
“Treason” (available for pre-order, Oct. 19 debut)
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