Notes on Immigration...

My girlfriend and I were searching for a movie to watch on Amazon Unbox (I tried it a few months ago and the speeds were very slow; now it works very well) and we came across The Border, a 1981 drama about the US/Mexican border starring Jack Nicholson and Harvey Keitel.

I have to agree with someone's comment: nothing has changed about the immigration debate in the last 25 years. It's the same story: the border agents realize that their job is pretty pointless; the immigrants are driven to the country by poverty; corruption is not uncommon; "the wets" are viewed and treated like cattle.

This is a very sad state of affairs and nothing will change until there is less poverty in emigrant countries and the poor who want to make a better living are viewed more humanely.