Today there will be national demonstrations against revised efforts to “reform” immigration law that are expected to draw over a million folks. This is great news. In an effort to explain why this sleeping jaguar has awakened, some in the mainstream media have finally examined the debate from a Latino perspective. In particular CNN profiled the producers of A Day Without a Mexican (watch the trailer here). The film spoofs the immigration debate by depicting a hypothetical event in which all Mexicans disappear from California. The resulting chaos is predictable and kinda funny. The film itself is a bit of a one trick pony. It tries to extend the one-liner into a feature-length movie when a short would have sufficed. Still, the idea is a great meme that deserves circulation. Indeed our entire system would likely collapse without immigration, and especially from hard-working and industrious Mexicans who for our economy, in the words of Enterprise caption Jean-Luc Picard, “make it go.” So though I personally found A Day Without a Mexican a so-so movie, I’m glad it’s getting revised interest. The title itself should get our brain melons picked.

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