Signal International, brought 500 workers they recruited in India and the United Arab Emirates to supplement a labor force depleted by Hurricanes Katrina and Rita. Now they are faced with a lawsuit claiming they brought those 500 to the United States with the false promise of their employment being a path to citizenship. An immigration round up in Tennessee and a mosque burning, along with the mass exodus of over 1,000 latino residents, has left the communities of middle Tennessee shaken and divided. In South Florida, lawyers of a former muslim scholar are fighting what they describe as "punitive government harrassment" in the guise of baseless grand juries. In Indiana, an immigration attorney denounces the SAVE act as irrational and inhumane on the grounds of how it would tear apart families and destroy not just communities but lives.

This is the state of immigration in this country and it's a sad state, indeed.

The Coalition for Humane Immigrant Rights of Los Angeles (CHIRLA) is an organization that advances the cause of immigration as a basic human and civil right through community organizing and educating migrants and citizen about immigration law and services. It's due to their human rights advocacy that the Department of Immigrations Customs Enforcement (ICE) contacted them to announce a planned "humanitarian" raid "somewhere in Van Nuys, California".

Unfortunately, the outcome of the raid was anything but humanitarian and that's what the short documentary sets out to highlight.