The Least of These

Film Credits

Directors
Clark Lyda and Jesse Lyda

Producers
Marcy Garriott , Clark Lyda and Jesse Lyda

Editor
Amy Foote

Director of Photography and Co-Producer
John Fiege

Detainee Families in the film:
The Yourdkhani Family
Ana Mabel and family
Denia and family
Elsa and family

Attorneys in the film advocating for changes at Hutto:
Barbara Hines
Vanita Gupta
Michelle Brané

Archival Research
Becca Bender

Assistant Editor
Lee Eaton

Color Correction
DuArt Film & Video
Bill Stokes
John Rehberger
David Gauff

Editing Facility
Z Post/Doug O’Connor

Field Producer and Interpreter
Anita Grabowski

Graphic Artist
Aimee Lydé

Helicopter Pilot
Robert Garriott

Graphic designer
Jesse Bussey

Translation
Kari Cain
Kelly Edwards
Severa Padilla

Second Camera
Jeff York

Sound Mix
Soundcrafter/Tom Hammond

Story Consultant
Graig Uhlin

Website Designers
Thomas Bacon
Jesse Bussey
Hector Quinones

Still Photographers
John Fiege & Marcy Garriott

 MUSIC

LEAST OF MY BROTHERS
Written and performed by Adrian Quesada

STEBNER’S THEME
Written and performed by Adrian Quesada

SO LONG LONESOME;
WHAT DO YOU GO HOME TO
Courtesy of Explosions in the Sky and Temporary Residence
Written by Christopher Hrasky, Michael Aaron James, Munaf Rayani
& Mark Thomas Smith
Performed by Explosions in the Sky

SIX DAYS AT THE BOTTOM OF THE OCEAN;
THE MOON IS DOWN;
YOUR HAND IN MINE;
FIRST BREATH AFTER COMA
Courtesy of Explosions in the Sky
Written by Christopher Hrasky, Michael Aaron James, Munaf Rayani
& Mark Thomas Smith
Performed by Explosions in the Sky

Archival Footage Courtesy of:
C-SPAN
CTV Television Inc.
CNN
Democracy Now! Productions
ITN Source / Fox News
News 8 Austin
(The NEWS 8 logo is a registered trademark)
Immigrations and Customs Enforcement (ICE)

Archival Photographs Courtesy of:
Women’s Refugee Commission
Jeff Topping/Reuters
Yuri Gripas/Reuters

Special Thanks to:
ACLU
Amnesty International
Rebecca Bernhardt
Gouri Bhat
Andrew Brouwer
Casa Marianella
Jay Johnson Castro
Democracy Now
Penelope Falk
Martí Garza
Lisa Graybill
Evelyn Hernandez (CCA)
Louis Hughes
David King (Taylor Daily Press)
Bob Libal
Gary Mead (ICE)
Doug O’Connor/Z Post
José Orta
Matthew Pizzo
Posada Esperanza
Richard Rocha (ICE)
Carl Rusnok (ICE)
Texans United For Families
University of Texas Immigration Law Clinic Students
Allison Walker
Williamson County Commissioner’s Court
Donald Wolbrueck
Women’s Refugee Commission
Williamson County Commissioner’s Court

News

Detention Watch Network announces new campaign (2/25/10)

Today the Detention Watch Network launches its national campaign “Dignity, Not Detention: Preserving Human Rights & Restoring Justice” to halt expansion of the U.S. immigration detention system and demand that immigrants are treated with full respect for their human rights and dignity.


American ideals of democracy and liberty are built on the foundation of upholding due process and human rights for all people.  Contrary to these ideals, the U.S. government has created a climate of fear in our communities through the widespread abuse of power under the rapidly expanding immigration enforcement regime and the gross mistreatment of individuals held in detention.  At an annual cost of $1.7 billion, the government’s use of misguided enforcement practices have resulted in more than 300,000 people detained each year under appalling conditions in unregulated detention facilities with limited or no access to lawyers, and without hope for a fair day in court.


While John Morton, the head of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE, the Department of Homeland Security agency which oversees immigration detention and deportation) announced last year that he plans to institute major reforms in the detention system, to date, advocates have seen little evidence of change, and human rights abuses continue to occur each day.


Latina Lista notes that the advocacy campaign portrayed in “The Least of These” led to the type of transparency than can force additional changes in the detention system.


Family Detention at Hutto to End (8/6/09)

The Obama administration announced on August 6, 2009 that it will overhaul the nation’s immigrant detention system.  One immediate change: the government will stop sending families to the T. Don Hutto Residential Center, the former medium-security prison near Austin, TX that is the subject of “The Least of These.”   Family detention continues at the Berks facility in Pennsylvania,  and ICE is still considering the future of family detention policy overall.


Details on the announcement are in this front-page New York Times article (which links to “The Least of These.”)



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