Inhospitable
Latest Episodes
Live Episode: Wild Goose Festival
In this episode, we tell the story of Inhospitable at the Wild Goose Festival in North Carolina. Hear a summary of the story so far and Q&A with festival-goers. Inhospitable tells the revealing and heartbreaking story of a North Carolina
Episode V: What’s Next?
In this episode, we talk with immigration activists and experts about misconceptions about immigration and conduct a roundtable of the pastors at Greenwood Forest Baptist Church about the role of communities (faith-based and otherwise) in the current imm
Episode IV: “It was my turn.”
Eventually, the seemingly inevitable outcome came and Gilles was taken from Atlanta and deported. This episode chronicles his deportation and what deportation means for the country and the world.
Bonus Episode: Live Show @ Greenwood Forest Baptist Church
This special live episode in a question and answer format was recorded at Greenwood Forest Baptist Church in Cary, NC, Gilles home congregation in the United States. It was recorded in between the third and fourth episodes of the series.
Episode III: “So what, maybe it is a concentration camp?”
The massive immigration detention system in the United States is one-of-a-kind, and its repeatedly come under scrutiny for its treatment of immigrants and its financial practices.
Episode II: “You pretty much already have to be dead.”
There are no clear and simple pathways to citizenship in the United States, but avenues to temporary statuses at least used to be more available. How, then, did Gilles first arrive in the United States? The story begins across the world in the Republic o
Episode I: “They trapped me, pastor”
I remember sitting in the conference room when Gilles called for the first time from York Detention Center in SC and the sadness and anger and fear that was in his voice and the distress in his voice when he said “Pastor! Pastor! they trapped me!”
Inhospitable Trailer
Inhospitable tells the revealing and heartbreaking story of a North Carolina mans detention by ICE, and his communitys fight to keep him from being deported.