After immigrant Mireya Sanchez is deported, immigration
officer Max Brogan takes care of her little son and brings him to the boy's
grandparents in Mexico. Later the woman is found dead near the border. Brogan
returns to the grandparents to tell them the bad news.
Taslima Jahangir, a 15-year-old girl from Bangladesh,
presents a paper at school promoting that people should try to understand the 9/11 hijackers. The school
principal reports this to authorities. FBI agents raid the home and
ransack the girl's room, reading her diaries and a school assignment on the
ethics of suicide; they criticize her room as "too austere" and note
that she has an account on an Islamic website. The profiler says this makes her
look like a would-be suicide bomber. Taslima is not charged for this, but
it turns out that she stays in the United States illegally. She was born in
Bangladesh and brought to the United States at age three. Taslima's continued
presence jeopardizes her chances and puts at risk her two younger siblings, who
are US citizens because they were
born in the country. Denise Frankel, the immigration defense attorney, suggests
that instead of the whole family's being deported, Taslima can leave for Bangladesh
with her mother while the rest of the family stays in the U.S.
Cole Frankel, an immigration officer, gets into a car
accident with Claire Shepard, an aspiring actress from Australia.
Realizing that she is in the country illegally, Cole makes an arrangement with
Claire whereby she will have unlimited sex with him for three months in
exchange for a green card. When Cole
eventually says he wants to leave his wife for Claire, she makes it clear that
she holds him in contempt and is only sleeping with him for the green card. In
a moment of clarity, Cole exempts Claire from completing the three months and
arranges for her to get her green card in the mail. Authorities eventually
confront Claire about the suspiciousness in her immigration paperwork, and she
admits to the sexual arrangement she had with Cole and leaves the country
"voluntarily". Cole is arrested. His wife Denise Frankel adopts a
little girl from Nigeria, who has already been in the detention center for
several years.
Brogan has a colleague, Hamid Baraheri. His family
disapproves of his sister's having sex with Javier Pedroza, a married man.
Encouraged by his father, Farid Baraheri (Hamid's brother) plans to scare the
couple, but things get out of hand: he shoots both of them, and goes to Hamid,
who helps him hide the evidence. Brogan slowly suspects Hamid's involvement as
the film progresses.
Also, Javier Pedroza works in a copy shop and makes extra
money by providing counterfeit immigration papers. Claire had previously paid
him for false papers before she had made her arrangement with Cole. But when
Javier was killed, the authorities discovered her documents among his
belongings, leading the immigration team to examine Claire's case more closely.
South Korean teenager Yong Kim is about to be naturalized
with the rest of his family, but he has started to hang out with a bad crowd
and ultimately participates in a convenience store robbery to "pop his
cherry" with his gang. Hamid happens to be at the same convenience store
and kills the other robbers but (due to his own guilt over his involvement in
his sister's death) lets Yong Kim go free.
Gavin Kossef, an atheist Jewish musician from the United
Kingdom pretends to be a religious Jew in order to get a job at a Jewish school,
which allows him to stay in the U.S. In a test in which he has to demonstrate
his familiarity with the Jewish religion he does not perform properly, but a rabbi asked to
assess it approves it because of his voice. After the test, in private, the
rabbi requires the immigrant to take lessons from him to eliminate the
deficiencies in his knowledge.
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