Bordertown (2006 film)

Bordertown is a 2006 American drama motion picture, written and directed by Gregory Nava and executive produced by David Bergstein, Cary Epstein, Barbara MartinezJitner, and Tracee StanleyNewell. The film features Jennifer Lopez, Antonio Banderas, Martin Sheen, among others.

The opening titles explain that American corporations are using the North American Free Trade Agreement by opening large maquiladoras right across the United StatesMexico border. The maquiladoras hire mostly Mexican women to work long hours for little money in order to produce mass quantity products.Lauren Adrian Jennifer Lopez, an impassioned American news reporter for the Chicago Sentinel wants to be assigned to the Iraq frontlines to cover the war. Instead, her editor George Morgan Martin Sheen assigns her to investigate a series of slayings involving young maquiladora factory women in a Mexican bordertown. ........

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