A new Mexican movie promoted by Univision host Jorge Ramos portrays a drunk vigilante motivated by Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump’s anti-immigrant rant killing at least four illegal immigrants at the border.
The trailer for the movie, Desierto, now in Mexican theaters, blasts out Trump’s initial criticism of illegal immigrants as a man armed with a rifle guns down targets crossing under barbed wire.
It later shows the same man, in a pickup holding a bottle of what appears to be whisky, a beer can nearby, as a voice says, “Welcome to the land of the free.” The trailer ends with, “words are as dangerous as bullets.”
The words accompanying the YouTube trailer read: “The young filmmaker Jonas Cuaron , made the film ‘Desert’ which will be released next April 15. Exclusive to Aristegui News, this new trailer, which is included part of speech candidate for the presidency of the United States , Donald Trump is presented. The film stars actor Gael Garcia, who is part of a group of undocumented immigrants who are ‘hunted’ while trying to cross the border.
The Center for Immigration Studies on Tuesday first blogged on the “exploitation” movie and the promotion by Ramos on his Sunday show Al Punto.
“This material resonates powerfully with Jorge Ramos. His conviction that racism and xenophobia are the driving forces of opposition to illegal immigration is a central theme of his nightly newscasts. Ramos fixates on reports that confirm his conviction with the obsessiveness of an exploitation film director showing close-ups of bullets tearing into human flesh,” wrote CIS Fellow Jerry Kammer.
He added: “On Sunday, Ramos talked with ‘Desierto’ director Jonas Cuaron and star Gael Garcia Bernal about Trump’s repugnant comments about Mexicans. Since then, Ramos said, ‘there are thousands if not millions of North Americans who feel that they have the absolute freedom to be racists.’ As evidence, he showed another video that Cuaron has made to promote his film. Over scenes of the assault in the desert, Cuaron superimposed comments posted on the Internet by people who cheered the sadistic violence. They called Sam a ‘hero.’ They said he was ‘doing God’s work.’ They said the Border Patrol should be doing the same.”
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