Venice Debut Highlights Community Resistance to ICE Raids

At the Venice Film Festival, a 25‑minute documentary by Laura Poitras and Rachel Lauren Mueller follows Minneapolis volunteers tracking ICE deportation operations, depicting protests, masked agents, and a Mexican man hiding with his son. Poitras says the film aims to denormalize the violence of Trump’s mass deportation campaign and to show how local organizing helped push back the crackdown, including a reported drawdown of ICE agents, underscoring community safety and resilience amid nationwide anti-immigrant actions.