Three years into the Revolutionary War, a desperate George Washington hired German soldier Friedrich Wilhelm von Steuben to drill discipline into his ragtag troops. Von Steuben helped win American …
,” a documentary designed to create a stir. The devotion was one-sided. Thanks to a mid-’90s rule change and today’s rising xenophobia, foreign veterans who commit non-violent offenses upon their return to the states are punished three times for the same crime: They’re put in jail, rejected as citizens and deported, often to a county they haven’t seen since they were kids, while being forced to leave their own U.S.-born children behind .
Take the case of Miguel Perez, one of three subjects Renzi tracks in this personal doc that travels back and forth across the border with ease. After two tours in Afghanistan, Perez, who moved to America when he was 8, returned home with a brain injury. Shortly after, he was arrested for drug possession and locked up for seven years in prison plus severalyears by ICE, which is where we meet him via a hidden camera smuggled in by his mom.
The doc’s most controversial subject is El Vet, a masked veteran who stalks the film with a gun and his own hidden camera, which he uses to record his for-hire assassinations. Renzi doesn’t show us the blood; fuzzy images of naked men pleading for their lives are shocking enough. Muffled through his disguise, El Vet talks about how his first government-sanctioned combat kills rewired his brain. As he sees it, whether he’s good or evil doesn’t depend on him as much as his employers.
Toward the end, Renzi asks El Vet if his participation in the doc will be bad publicity that hurts the other deported veterans suing for the right to come home. What hope dohave? he asks. To his knowledge, no one’s won back his old life, as though the government is using them to telegraph the statement that no foreigners need bother apply.
“This should not be a partisan issue,” insists Illinois Sen. Tammy Duckworth, who lost two legs in Iraq.
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