Film highlights ICE detentions and a Vermonter's detention story

Speakers described how the filmmakers pursued personal stories to ground coverage of immigration enforcement. Amy Goodman recounted the case of Mohsen, a student from the West Bank who the panel said owns land in Vermont, was detained by ICE and later graduated and continued studies at Columbia University.

"When something happens to Mohsen, we reach out to Mohsen, because there's nothing more powerful than someone telling their own story," Goodman said, explaining the film's approach of centering subjects who have direct experience of enforcement actions. Filmmakers said the sequence reinforces the documentary's argument that firsthand testimony can prompt public attention and action.