| Summary: | Jesus Collado was born in the Dominican Republic and has lived in the United States for more than twenty-five years as a legal immigrant. He is a permanent resident of the U.S. who married and raised his family in the U.S. His wife and daughters are all U.S. citizens. However, because of a past criminal conviction, Jesus Collado sits in a maximum-security prison in Pennsylvania under threat of deportation. Paul Ahua is a refugee from the Ivory Coast, Africa. Thanks to his lawyer, Michele Meyer-Shipp, he managed to win temporary asylum, after he was beaten and tortured for speaking out against female genital mutilation in his home country. Following the stories of Jesus Collado and Paul Ahua, the film that takes a look into the world of immigrants in the U.S. and the grave effects of the immigration reform act of 1996.
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