CHICAGO, ILLINOIS–Vivek Ramaswamy, a 2024 Republican presidential candidate and executive producer of the soon-to-be-released film City of Dreams, which chronicles the depraved world of child slavery and trafficking via the southern border, spoke exclusively with Breitbart News about his motivation for getting involved with the film. He cohosted the film’s premiere in Miami, Florida, on Tuesday night. City of Dreams, which shares producers with the 2023 film Sound of Freedom , follows the story of a migrant boy named Jesús, who dreams of becoming a soccer star and is trafficked into the United States only to be thrust into a world of underground child slavery.
But Jesús fights back against his captors in the film, which is inspired by true events and has drawn praise from Hollywood legends like Martin Sheen and Sylvester Stallone. Breitbart News caught up with Ramaswamy Thursday afternoon at the Trump International Hotel and Tower in Chicago for an exclusive on-camera interview about the Roadside Attractions film, as well as the Democratic National Convention. “We’re having this conversation right now as the inspector general report for the Department of Homeland Security reveals that there are now hundreds of thousands more — 320,000 more children than were previously thought to be the number who they have completely lost track of in our country,” Ramaswamy told Breitbart News.
“We’re taught to believe that slavery ended in the United States in the 1860s..