Law and Order Season Finale on the “American Dream/Sanctuary”
Last week, Law & Order: SVU had its season finale and it had a “ripped from the headlines” story line about hate crimes against Muslims, undocumented immigrants, “sanctuary cities,” and more. Here is a description: “Three masked men break into a Syrian family’s restaurant, steal the money, kill the father, rape both of his adult daughters, then kill one of those daughters. Along the way, the criminals spray-paint “Muslims must die” on the refrigerators.” The episode can be watched online.
The episode had the NYPD detectives investigating a horrible rape/murder case with a family of Muslim victims. In the course of the special two hour episode, the story line takes us through the modern immigration debates immigration and the Big Apple’s status as a “sanctuary city”; nonetheless, SVU detective Olivia Benson (Mariska Hargitay) threatens an undocumented immigrant mother from El Salvador with removal unless she provides information. In the end, the viewer has to decide whether justice has been done.
KJ