Ira plays audio from a YouTube video made by Jonathan Perez. In it, 24 year old Jonathan,
an undocumented immigrant, walks straight into a US Immigration and Customs Enforcement
office, tells an officer he doesn’t have papers, and gets himself arrested. Why would anyone do
that?
(8 minutes)
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