A Day Without A Mexican

[ConsequentAtheist]

A Day Without A Mexican

Set in modern-day California and based on Sergio Arau and Yareli Arizmendi’s short of the same title, the much anticipated “A Day Without a Mexican,” starring Yareli Arizmendi (Like Water for Chocolate, 1992) as Lila Rodríguez, the sole remaining Latino in California after 14 million Latinos mysteriously disappear, delves into the economic, political and social implications of this disaster on the Golden State’s way of life. Experts pose questions and offer theories: Could this be a UFO kidnapping? Biological terrorism? The Apocalypse and Latinos are the chosen ones? Or perhaps they just left because they were tired of being taken for granted.

As time goes by, the State continues to deteriorate: Garbage has taken over the streets and tears are permanently painted on the faces of most citizens as the 5th largest economy in the world tumbles. The realization that what has disappeared is the very thing that keeps the “California Dream” running – cooks, gardeners, policemen, nannies, doctors, farm and construction workers, entertainers, athletes, teachers as well as the largest growing market of consumers – has turned Latinos and their return into the number one priority in the State. But as despair turns into quiet sorrow, deeply felt memories and heartfelt appreciation yield unexpected results.

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They just silently disappear, and the result is chaos.

Now imagine, instead, that the departure was far more catastrophic. Imagine that it was accompanied by waves of plagues, the destruction of the military, and the death of hundreds of thousands of men, women, and children. Then imagine all of this happening without leaving a trace.

This is the Exodus, an epic of a subserviant people who constituted, if the Bible is to be taken at its word, roughly the same percentage of the Egyptian population as do today's Mexicans with respect to the population of California.

Sometimes, the absence of evidence is evidence of absence.

 

[Hathor]

and a rush to judgement is the most egregious of errors.

 

[Dr Lou Natic]

Is this short a comedy?

 

[invert_nexus]

There's always some other group of immigrants to fill the void.