Chicano artist Lalo Alcaraz satirizes the xenophobia, racial profiling, and violence by US Border Authorities.
The "alien" is modeled after Mr. Spock from Star Trek. The border guard (INS was the predecessor agency to ICE and USCIS) is the violent immigration enforcer.
Immersion broken - La migra doesn’t apologize
I'm sorry, am I supposed to believe an immigration officer would admit a mistake, much less apologize for it?
More like kill the victim and deport all the witnesses.
That reminds me, in the first draft of the script of The City on the Edge of Forever, there's a scene in which an orator on a literal soapbox makes a speech to a crowd about how foreigners are to blame for all the country's ills, yada yada yada, the usual bullshit, and when seeing Spock and believing him to be a foreigner, sends the crowd after him.
Spock gets quite... emotional over it.
To the people downvoting, was star trek too political in 1994?
If there’s one place you can expect aliens, it’s in New Mexico. They have been making regular appearances since 1949!
Afaik the historical documents only prove Ferengi sightings...
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