Watch Refuge(e) on Kanopy or Vimeo on Demand. Educational licensing available through New Day Films

Refuge(e) traces the incredible journey of two refugees, Alpha and Zeferino. Each fled violent threats to their life in their home countries, made the long, dangerous trip across most of the Western hemisphere to the US/Mexico border, and presented themselves at the border asking for political asylum only to be incarcerated in a for-profit prison in Cibola County, New Mexico for months on end. They represent thousands more like them who can't tell their stories, and their fight for freedom and the right to live calls into question the nature of our immigrant detention system.

The film was used to launch a successful campaign to get the New Mexico Educational Retirement Board to divest from private prison corporations - the first educator pension fund in the Southwest to do so.

Learn more about how to take action at: www.refuge3.com

Produced in collaboration with the Santa Fe Dreamers Project with support from the Fledgling Fund.