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3	A low-budget independent film released in 2004.
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5	Latin Americans mysteriously vanish all over the state of California. The California borders are hidden and obscured with a thick, impenetrable mist.
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7	Suddenly the rest of the Californians, even those with animosity toward immigrants, are forced to cope with their absence when they realize how much they relied on them.
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9	Mostly PlayedForLaughs, although it doesn't shy away from its own opinion on the matter.
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12	!!Tropes:
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14	* BeCarefulWhatYouWishFor: Especially for those hostile to immigration and Border Patrol, many people began to find the life without Latino to be more difficult as many of them work in [[KlingonScientistsGetNoRespect menial but necessary works, like fruit harvests and restaurant side works.]]
15	* BorderPatrol: The "pink fog" that cuts off the state's communications from the rest of the world, and of course the real life one.
16	%% * ChildrenAreInnocent: The child of the anti-immigrant activist.
17	%% * DeusExMachina: Type 3. Its established that mass disappearance is possible. [[spoiler: whether or not the leaking faucet was responsible was up to question since the disappearance ended with it being fixed by a handyman.]]
18	* HumanInterestStory: the sort of reporting one of our leads was forced to do until she became the apparent Last of Her Kind.
19	* [[LastOfHisKind Last of Her Kind]]: people believe there to be exactly ''one'' Mexican in California for most of this film. [[spoiler: Turned out that she was an Armenian adopted by Latino parents.]]
20	* LatinoIsBrown: Subverted as many white residents found out that many of their lighter-skinned neighbors are in fact Latinos.
21	* NationalStereotypes: Parodied and subverted. The film did show that Mexicans and Latin Americans do live in all walks of life, which ranges from school teachers to reporters, besides menial labor.
22	%% * SouthOfTheBorder: Lampshaded.
23	* SpaceWhaleAesop: Respect Hispanic immigrants—''all'' of them—or you will find that they are all gone and your state is cut off from everything.
24	* WellDoneSonGuy: The vice-governor's attitudes towards undocumented workers is based on his teachings from his father, [[spoiler: which his CharacterDevelopment came with him painting his portrait over as a sign of defiance]].
25	%% * WeWantOurJerkBack: Several groups suffered from this. For instance, what's the Border Patrol to do when the border is gone?

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