New Media and Visual Technologies as weapons of vigilante border policing
A rogue U.S. Border Patrol agent goes undercover as an undocumented migrant.
- from the Gate Keeper (2001)
- Creator: John Carlos Frey
- Distributor: Screen Media Films
- Posted by Curtis Marez
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New Media Technologies as Weapons of Vigilante Border Policing
by Curtis MarezIn this scene from independent film The Gatekeeper (2001), a rogue U.S. Border Patrol agent joins a Minute Men-like group of nativist vigilantes and goes undercover as an undocumented migrant and equipped with a GPS device and a hidden digital video camera.
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