Danielle Turchiano Senior Features Editor, TVSPOILER ALERT: Do not read if you have not watched Season 2 of “Gentefied,” streaming now on Netflix.When “Gentefied” co-creator Marvin Lemus was a teenager, he testified on his undocumented mother’s behalf so that she could receive her green card.
Decades later, under the administration of President Donald Trump, he found himself “terrified” that she’d be ripped away from him.“I was hearing all of these stories that even green card holders were getting taken by ICE and sometimes being held for long periods of time,” Lemus tells Variety.After spending a long time “pestering her to get her citizenship,” she finally did — while Lemus was breaking the second season of his Netflix series.
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