Biography
Claudio Rojas is an immigrant-rights activist featured in The Infiltrators, which documents organizing inside immigration detention. ICE detained and deported him to Argentina in 2019 after the film premiered. Documentary and immigrant-rights advocates alleged retaliation for his criticism of ICE. He returned to the United States and reunited with his family in 2021. His profile records a historical detention and deportation, not confirmed current ICE custody.
Case history and verification
Claudio Rojas is an immigrant-rights activist featured in The Infiltrators, which documents organizing inside immigration detention. ICE detained and deported him to Argentina in 2019 after the film premiered. Documentary and immigrant-rights advocates alleged retaliation for his criticism of ICE. He returned to the United States and reunited with his family in 2021. His profile records a historical detention and deportation, not confirmed current ICE custody.
Status reviewed October 8, 2026: Historical case. The profile records the last documented outcome; no current ICE custody is asserted.
Sources
- National Immigrant Justice Center: case history
- International Documentary Association, December 2021: return to the United States
Verified detail sources (October 8, 2026): The amended complaint, paragraphs 31 and 40–41, dates the arrest and renewed detention to February 27, 2019. The International Documentary Association’s December 21, 2021 account explicitly describes Rojas as a man and identifies The Infiltrators protagonist. Source 1. Source 2.
Photo source: International Documentary Association. Courtesy of Alex Rivera. Source image reproduced without further alteration.
Miami Herald confirms April 2, 2019 deportation.
The July 2021 NYU/Cornell civil-rights complaint explains that Rojas’s 2019 supervision-revocation notice cited recent criminal activity and a failure to follow supervision conditions. The complaint quotes the government’s subsequent appellate brief acknowledging that those statements were incorrect: Rojas had no criminal history and had not failed to comply. It also reports restricted press access during detention and says his First Amendment claim was initially dismissed for lack of jurisdiction rather than rejected on its merits. This is historical procedural context, not a claim about the present case posture or a new period of custody.
