.OITNB showed the horrors of deportation
For its final season, Orange Is the New Black doubles down on what anyone paying attention to the news already knows: Immigrations and Customs Enforcement have made good bedfellows with our inherently flawed criminal justice system, targeting the most at-risk populations.
Adamant that she was a U.S. citizen and just needed to get in touch with someone who could retrieve a copy of her birth certificate, Maritza attempted to advocate for herself, but her efforts were constantly thwarted in the detention facility. She couldn't purchase a calling card to use the phone because she didn't have money and the machine was broken. She couldn't send a letter, because that same broken machine also vended stamps.
It's a powerful image—not least because it mirrors an experience in Guerrero's own life: Her family was deported back to Colombia, while she stayed in the U.S., since she had been born here. But it also serves as a reminder that we shouldn't have to know someone personally affected by this country's inhumane treatment of its immigrants to have empathy.
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