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  • Harsher in Hindsight: 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.
  • Nightmare Fuel:
  • Realism-Induced Horror: 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.
  • Values Resonance: To this day, the film still has some very important messages about how emigrating to the United States in hopes of a better life isn't all fun and games and most likely will not lead to the life of freedom and prosperity that one had on mind. And as of The New '10s and The New '20s, police squads who raid homes and businesses looking for undocumented immigrants to kick out of the country, much like what happened in the movie.

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