Orange Is the New Black
We had a love/hate relationship with the Netflix show ‘Orange is the New Black’.
I’m not quite sure we saw all the episodes because we got bored with a few of the seasons, but we did jump in on seasons 6 & 7, and it’s a good show to watch when you’re doing other things, like reading or writing.
There are a lot of characters and the plot line isn’t something you have to pay close attention to.
Yet, the show touched on the immigration issue in a huge way as it came down the stretch, and I went from being indifferent to getting a little agitated.
The scene that got me was of two little Hispanic children before an immigration judge.
“Do you have a lawyer?” The judge asked the 4 & 6-year-old children.
“No.”
“Do you know what a lawyer is?”
And it may have played for just a ridiculous television moment, but...
...that’s really happening.
“Who could be FOR THAT?” I asked.
“A lot of people,” Kathy said. “Millions.”
Later on in the episode a woman who’d been in the country from the age of 5 was deported.
“I don’t even know anyone there,” she cried.
“Tough.”
The ICE Agents were unapologetic.
They were treating everyone as a criminal. The detainees were bunked in barns like animals.
Deported.
To places they never knew.
And yeah, it’s a crazy, crazy situation and the fleeing refugees can’t overwhelm the gate, but we are refusing entry to the poor people of the Bahamas who just had their homes leveled.
“There are some bad people in the Bahamas,” warned the man who doesn’t care for the pigmentation of their skin. “We can’t just let them in. They have drugs.”
Yeah.
That was the plan...
...hurricane...
...destroy our own homes, then we’ll head off with our boats full of cocaine, where we will start a life of crime!
“Thing is, a lot of people don’t want to think about it,” Kathy said.
Give us your tired, poor and downtrodden...
...we’ll treat ‘em like cattle.
I’m not quite sure we saw all the episodes because we got bored with a few of the seasons, but we did jump in on seasons 6 & 7, and it’s a good show to watch when you’re doing other things, like reading or writing.
There are a lot of characters and the plot line isn’t something you have to pay close attention to.
Yet, the show touched on the immigration issue in a huge way as it came down the stretch, and I went from being indifferent to getting a little agitated.
The scene that got me was of two little Hispanic children before an immigration judge.
“Do you have a lawyer?” The judge asked the 4 & 6-year-old children.
“No.”
“Do you know what a lawyer is?”
And it may have played for just a ridiculous television moment, but...
...that’s really happening.
“Who could be FOR THAT?” I asked.
“A lot of people,” Kathy said. “Millions.”
Later on in the episode a woman who’d been in the country from the age of 5 was deported.
“I don’t even know anyone there,” she cried.
“Tough.”
The ICE Agents were unapologetic.
They were treating everyone as a criminal. The detainees were bunked in barns like animals.
Deported.
To places they never knew.
And yeah, it’s a crazy, crazy situation and the fleeing refugees can’t overwhelm the gate, but we are refusing entry to the poor people of the Bahamas who just had their homes leveled.
“There are some bad people in the Bahamas,” warned the man who doesn’t care for the pigmentation of their skin. “We can’t just let them in. They have drugs.”
Yeah.
That was the plan...
...hurricane...
...destroy our own homes, then we’ll head off with our boats full of cocaine, where we will start a life of crime!
“Thing is, a lot of people don’t want to think about it,” Kathy said.
Give us your tired, poor and downtrodden...
...we’ll treat ‘em like cattle.
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