| 1 | * HarsherInHindsight: Enrique getting snitched on at work for being an undocumented immigrant becomes a ''lot'' worse with all of the raids on such immigrants by the U.S.'s Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency starting in 2017. |
| 2 | * NightmareFuel: |
| 3 | ** Enqirue and Rosa crawling through a long and dark sewer pipe in order to cross from Mexico to California. And then they get attacked by sewer rats, who are infected, causing Rosa to die from their bites later down the line. |
| 4 | ** The final shot of the film is a severed head on a noose [[JumpScare that comes out of nowhere]]. A common interpretation of this is that Enrique was DrivenToSuicide, and given that [[DownerEnding the film ends with Rosa dead and Enrique in a manual labor job much like the one he had back home]], that scenario is very much possible. |
| 5 | * RealismInducedHorror: For many Latinos fleeing from horrific conditions in their home countries, what Rosa and Enrique go through in their quest to settle down in the US is reality. |
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