Imagine that your life has fallen apart
-- maybe you've been tortured or
raped, or maybe you've gotten out
just in time. You'll have one chance
to start a new life in the U.S., and an
hour to tell your story to a neutral
bureaucrat. Now imagine yourself on
the other side of the desk, listening
to people seeking refuge from any
one of a hundred countries. The law
says you can offer asylum if you find
that someone has a "well-founded
fear of persecution." Three times a
day, your job is to decide their fates.
Political asylum--who deserves it?
Who gets it? With unprecedented
access, filmmakers Michael Camerini
and Shari Robertson enter the closed
corridors of the INS to reveal the
dramatic real-life stage where human
rights and American ideals collide with the nearly impossible task of trying to know the truth.
Directors - Shari Robertson and Michael Camerini
Distributor - The Epidavros Project
Click here to read from Human Rights Watch's World Report about the United States.
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