Immigration 21 Law & Order episodes
Cases involving immigrants, deportation and exploited immigrant labor.
- Season 2 · Episode 10
Heaven
A fire at a club for Central American immigrants kills 53 people, and the obvious suspect may not be the real one.
- Season 3 · Episode 5
Wedded Bliss
Two Mexican teenagers found in the city’s rivers in handcuffs lead detectives to a sweatshop where immigrant workers were chained to their beds.
- Season 3 · Episode 7
Self-Defense
A Greek immigrant jeweler shoots two armed robbers, and Stone must decide whether chasing one into the street turned self-defense into murder.
- Season 3 · Episode 10
Consultation
A young Nigerian woman dies carrying heroin in her stomach, and the people who sent her include a tribal chief with diplomatic protection.
- Season 3 · Episode 20
Securitate
A Romanian immigrant’s murder exposes his brother, a former secret police officer, and the brother’s own killing brings a novel insanity defense.
- Season 4 · Episode 10
The Pursuit of Happiness
A meat wholesaler is shot in his own office, and the detectives look hard at his young Russian wife, who came to New York through a mail-order marriage broker.
- Season 4 · Episode 11
Golden Years
An elderly woman is found dead after a break-in, but the autopsy shows she starved, and suspicion moves from her fired maid to her granddaughter.
- Season 8 · Episode 10
Ritual
An Egyptian importer’s killing first looks like terrorism, then reveals a family plan to have his 11-year-old grandniece cut by a doctor flown in from Cairo, and her father is the killer.
- Season 10 · Episode 21
Narcosis
A strangled madam is found near the massage parlor she ran with smuggled Chinese women, and the search for her killer moves from crooked vice cops to an online customer’s desperate family.
- Season 11 · Episode 19
Whiplash
An undocumented day laborer collapses and dies a day after a staged car accident, and the insurance scam that put him in the car leads from a moving-company boss to a chiropractor and a personal-injury law firm.
- Season 12 · Episode 21
Foul Play
A retired detective turned private eye is shot with his own gun in an empty Washington Heights apartment, and the case leads into a youth baseball league fielding an overage star.
- Season 12 · Episode 24
Patriot
A gas explosion in a tenement covers up the murder of an undocumented Yemeni man, and his killer, a Gulf War veteran, claims he was fighting terrorism.
- Season 13 · Episode 9
The Wheel
A young woman found burning outside a Chinese diplomat’s apartment looks like a Falun Gong protester, but her lawsuit against him suggests murder and pulls Branch’s old law firm into the case.
- Season 13 · Episode 21
House Calls
A Russian immigrant model who supports her family dies in a store dressing room, and the trail leads to a self-styled “Doctor to the Stars” who sees patients in a restaurant and pays house calls.
- Season 14 · Episode 10
Ill-Conceived
The beating death of a garment-factory owner leads to an undocumented worker whose girlfriend’s newborn turns out to be the victim’s child, and a secret surrogacy arrangement reshapes the case.
- Season 16 · Episode 8
New York Minute
The shooting of a trucking-company owner uncovers migrants who died in his trailer and pulls in a citizen border-patrol group with secrets of its own.
- Season 17 · Episode 15
Melting Pot
An actress-director found hanged in her office was knocked unconscious first, and the case pits a Muslim sound mixer who hated her film against an undocumented laborer who admits a struggle with her.
- Season 18 · Episode 8
Illegal
A legal immigrant is killed by gunfire as police break up an immigration rally, and McCoy’s pursuit of the auxiliary officer who fired puts his own record on trial.
- Season 19 · Episode 8
Chattel
The murder of a married pair of divorce lawyers leads the detectives to a Haitian adoptee sent back home after a divorce, and then to a couple who brought Haitian children to New York to work as servants.
- Season 19 · Episode 18
Promote This!
Three Long Island high school athletes who record themselves attacking Hispanic men are tied to the beating of a Honduran day laborer and the murder of a laid-off autoworker.
- Season 20 · Episode 3
Great Satan
A virtual-kidnapping scam turns up an informant inside a small group plotting to bomb a synagogue, but a second, real bombing and the informant’s own secrets put the prosecution at risk.