This film produced by Simon Brand shows the reality of those people who are searching for that "american dream", no matter what it takes to get there they would do it, lown money, leave their families in order to has their foot into that land that "promises" a better life... as television, and hollywood movies often show.
What many people don't know is the amount of persons actually die in this route.
How this operates in the real life? Well no very far from what we saw in this colombina movie. For many latins the words Reynosa and New Laredo in Mexico means happiness or misfortune, cause are the obligated places where the have to go trough in order to arrive to EEUU by Texas.
This way is named as wetbacks in Central America or "el hueco" as is named here in Colombia, by the way ther is a book written by German Castro named El hueco which tells the suffer and pain that many latins decide to affront, where are related some torture cases of the Federal Police from Mexico and the danger of the mother nature.
And ther are a lot of documentals, books, and movies that dedicated to tell the hell this people live as Simon Brand showed with his production, some examples are Crossing Arizona, American Visa, Mojados and El inmigrante.
But despite those thousand of cases, people still deciding that is the best chance to get a better life, because of love like in this case for the young man that followed Reina by her side because it was her dream, but not really his.
And as we know, not only individuals rights are been damaged here but the inmigrants policies what it costs to hace so many outsiders in one country.
right now with the actual economic crisis many inmigrants are even thinking to come back to their homelands because the chances are fewer than before, people are not spending their money as they were used to, and that means that less maids to clean are hired, less mechanics, less burritos sales in the street... and so one.
Bibliography
What many people don't know is the amount of persons actually die in this route.
How this operates in the real life? Well no very far from what we saw in this colombina movie. For many latins the words Reynosa and New Laredo in Mexico means happiness or misfortune, cause are the obligated places where the have to go trough in order to arrive to EEUU by Texas.
This way is named as wetbacks in Central America or "el hueco" as is named here in Colombia, by the way ther is a book written by German Castro named El hueco which tells the suffer and pain that many latins decide to affront, where are related some torture cases of the Federal Police from Mexico and the danger of the mother nature.
And ther are a lot of documentals, books, and movies that dedicated to tell the hell this people live as Simon Brand showed with his production, some examples are Crossing Arizona, American Visa, Mojados and El inmigrante.
But despite those thousand of cases, people still deciding that is the best chance to get a better life, because of love like in this case for the young man that followed Reina by her side because it was her dream, but not really his.
And as we know, not only individuals rights are been damaged here but the inmigrants policies what it costs to hace so many outsiders in one country.
right now with the actual economic crisis many inmigrants are even thinking to come back to their homelands because the chances are fewer than before, people are not spending their money as they were used to, and that means that less maids to clean are hired, less mechanics, less burritos sales in the street... and so one.
Bibliography
- Paraíso Travel, Film.
- Penagos, A. M. & Sierra, D. & Peñaranda, S. & Piedrahíta, M.A. 2009. Presentation "Migration and expatriates, An insight outlook" Organization and Cultures Subject, Universidad EAFIT.
- Peligros de ir a Estados Unidos sin visa. http://www.comolograrlavisadeusa.com/peligros_de_irse_ilegal_a_Estados_Unidos/index.php. Retrieved on April, 2009
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