The Golden Venture talks about the smuggling of Chinese immigrants to America. The people smugglers, known as the snakeheads, were exploiting these Chinese immigrants and taking advantages of them. Upon the unforeseen arrival of the ship, the New York police force had little time to react to the situation, and the crewmembers irresponsibly ran the ship onto Rockaway Beach. The immigrants were seeking for opportunities and freedom that were propagandized to many not-so-advanced places.

Sometimes, the government actions seem irrational when it is dealing with immigration issues. These Chinese immigrants came here for the “Land of Opportunities and Freedom.” I wonder why it always seems to be an idle process. To many people who aren’t entirely understood the politic, the reactions and the proposed resolutions for the problems are usually extreme but needed no time consuming or time stalling actions.

The Immigration and Naturalization Service changed the policy when they had to face these illegal immigrants. Instead of releasing these unfortunate immigrants, INS gave them two choices: asylum or deportation. In my point of view, choosing asylum does give these immigrants some hopes of staying, but giving them jail time seems to be a very wasteful solution. Much money and time that were spent dealing with the immigrants. I think even putting them to work in exchanging for decent detainment places is better than keeping them inside jail cells. Deportation might seem to be the choice what the people in America want them to pick but the Americans did not know what dangers were waiting for these immigrants once they entered their homeland.

This documentary makes us rethink about the difficult situations for these illegal immigrants, about the causes for their attempts, and about how poorly the government dealt with the issue.