The Deportation of Innocence | movie | 2016 | Official Trailer - video Dailymotion

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00:00Once upon a time, there was this little girl who was lost in the woods.

00:11She had to sleep in the woods.

00:13She was very hungry.

00:15One day she found a house.

00:17She didn't know that in the house there were three ugly witches, or that the house was

00:21haunted.

00:22She knocked on the door.

00:24One ugly witch opened it.

00:26The United States has never faced this kind of situation before.

00:54Immigration separated him from his little sister, and they started telling him that

01:01his little sister was going to get taken away from him.

01:03She was going to be adopted by another family.

01:06When both parents are deported, the children get put into foster homes.

01:13Rather quickly, they can be put up for adoption, because deportation is treated as if the parents

01:18have abandoned their children.

01:21He was almost an hour late.

01:24I had to pick him up at five, and I picked him up at six.

01:27When I got to school, there were already three patrols waiting for me.

01:31They took them away from me.

01:32They arrive at the house, they arrive at dawn, with an excess of violence.

01:36They saw that their father was put on the floor, they hit him on the head, and they don't

01:39even know why they are taking him away.

01:46My daughter was born.

01:47Her life has already begun here.

01:49She already has her friends from Iqueret.

01:53I don't even want to think about that, really.

01:57It would be fatal.

02:00I continue to question what the United States is going to do when all these American citizens,

02:05who are now infants, who are now minors, who do not have the ability to make decisions,

02:11understand, when they grow up, that their country took away from them the opportunity

02:16to grow up with their parents.

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