Wetback: The Undocumented Documentary reveals the true anti-immigrant assholes””Mexicans

“Since it first played in Orange County last year during the Newport Beach Film Festival, Wetback: The Undocumented Documentary has continued to gain fans for its unflinching criticism of border policies in both the United States and Mexico. KPFK-FM 90.7 gave copies of the film away during its recent fund-raising drive, and it’s currently screening the film in various Southern California locales next week as a token of appreciation. The barnstorming tour stops in Santa Ana’s Centro Cultural de México this Saturday.

Wetback starts in Nicaragua, where Nayo and Milton, two young laborers with dreams of Canada (shows how fucked-up this country is!), tearfully, hopefully depart their villages. The camera follows their easy trip from Honduras to El Salvador to Guatemala, from meadow to meadow to meadow, it seems. The soundtrack howls with a cover of “Tres Veces Mojado” (“Three Times a Wetback”), the immortal 1980s corrido by conjunto norteño legends Los Tigres del Norte that explained the plight of Central American immigrants to Mexicans.”

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