NCLAFF. Stopping the Deportation Machine

5:00 PM. Expanding Sanctuary. Kristal Sotomayor. USA. 21 minutes. English and Spanish with subtitles. The NCLAFF is proud to add to its line-up of events: 5:30 pm. Stopping the Deportation Machine, a documentary book by Bryan Christopher. Riverside Highschool Stopping the Deportation Machine tells the true story of one undocumented student's journey to America to escape death threats, reunite with his family, and pursue an education. In the blink of an eye, Wildin Acosta's dream of becoming the first member of his family to graduate high school in the United States turned into a nightmare when undercover immigration agents in Durham, North Carolina, arrested him one morning before school, intending to deport him to his native Honduras. 6:00 pm. THE DEAD WILL CARRY US. Rodrigo Dorfman. Durham. 2025. 18 minutes. 7:00 PM BORDERLAND | THE LINE WITHIN. Pamela Yates, US, 2024, 110 min. In English and Spanish with English subtitles The United States border is not just a geographic location. The border is everywhere. It lies within every undocumented immigrant family with the threat that at any moment they can be captured, incarcerated, deported; their lives destroyed.