if this movie be intend to make me feel sorry for the illegal mexican flood this country and well and it do not . many year ago i saw el norte and i be deeply touch by this movie . but in the meantime 30 year have pass and illegal immigration have become a sport . a competition in between mexican and who can falsify document good and find a new way to cross the border and screw the system in the u good . i know plenty of illegal mexican and who live since year in the u and own house and car and phone and have good pay job . i have never see any raid anywhere they be work . there be hundred of day worker on the street every day and nobody care . the only thing they have to be afraid of be be rob by other street people . the tear jerk story of the mother and who leave her child to clean toilet in the u and send back money for sneaker and birthday party and do at no point convince me that there be any necessity for her to leave her child and come to the u . the whole movie make fun of the immigration problem and be actually misrepresent the situation to get tear . if mexican would put a much effort in create job in mexico a they put effort into falsify document and cross the border illegally and maybe mexico would be good off . it be a beautiful country and i always wonder why people want to leave their family and culture and tradition and friend to clean toilet for other people and live in crammed quarter in usually ugly neighborhood . the american way of life do not mean quality of life and at least the mother in the story see that point .