Among immigrants

AUSTIN - 'Opgejaagd Amerika' vertelt het verhaal van enkele gewone Texanen die geviseerd worden door Trumps verstrengde immigratiebeleid. De Belgische Louise Van Assche, die zelf in Texas woont en werkt, volgt samen met co-regisseur Kwinten Gernay een aantal gezinnen aan de grens met Mexico. Deze vaak onzichtbare maar directe getuigen tonen hoe de maatregelen van de Trump-administratie de lokale gemeenschap raken.

TRENTON – America is electing a new president. But what do new Americans, such as people from Antwerp in Belgium who started a new life in the States years ago, think about that? For ten weeks, journalist Niels Daniel and cameraman Nico Beckers travelled through four American states to find out: New Jersey, Colorado, Georgia and New York.

BRUSSELS / BIAŁOWIEŻA / LESBOS - Security agents abandoning people in the desert. Coast guards destroying boats and leaving those on board stranded on the open sea. Slave markets with refugees. Since the start of the “European refugee crisis”, violence at our external borders, and in distant countries that do the dirty work for us, has exploded.