Mexican and American federal agents tackle a vicious gang exploiting illegal farm workers in southern California.
To penetrate a gang exploiting illegal Mexican farmworkers smuggled into California (and leaving no live witnesses), Mexican federal agent Pablo Rodriguez poses as an ignorant bracero, while his American counterpart Jack Bearnes works from outside. Soon, both are in deadly danger from the ringleader, sinister rancher Owen Parkson, and find night on the farm to be full of shadowy film-noir menace...—Rod Crawford <[email protected]>
When several illegal Mexican workers are murdered at the border of Mexico and United States by a gang of Coyotes, the Mexican and American federal agents Pablo Rodriguez and Jack Bearnes are assigned to work infiltrated in the group of Mexican farm workers that are waiting for a chance to work in southern California. Pablo poses of bracero while Jack poses of a dealer of permits to work in the United State to discover the leaders that exploit the laborers. They stumble upon the rancher Owen Parkson and they find he is the ringleader. But soon they are in danger and do not have means to communicate with their contacts. What will happen to Jack and Pablo?—Claudio Carvalho, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Illegal Mexican migrant workers paying coyotes for the chance to cross the border and work for unethical American rancher Owen Parkson are ambushed and killed upon their return to Mexico by soulless bandits. To stop the vicious cycle of exploitation and murder, Mexican federal agent Pablo Rodriguez is assigned to infiltrate a group of 'braceros' in cooperation with American federal agent Jack Bearnes. Risking their lives to uphold the laws of their respective countries, the success of the operation depends on Pablo and Jack's ability to outsmart the predators without becoming the prey.—Mae Moreno
While many Mexicans cross into the United States legally to provide much needed labor for the burgeoning agricultural trade in the southwest US, the migrant workers called braceros, both the United States and Mexico governments understand the problem that is the illegal smuggling of braceros across the border. These illegally crossing braceros, usually uneducated and unaware of the pitfalls, are at the mercy of the smugglers, are not provided the protection of the US government in not being in the country legally in they being "sold" akin to slave labor to a small number of unscrupulous farmers, and upon their return to Mexico to bring money home to their families are more often than not robbed and either killed or left for dead by bandits working for those same smugglers. Working on the file as field agents, Pablo Rodriguez with the Policía Judicial Federal in Mexico and Inspector Jack Bearnes with the US Department of Immigration decide to work cooperatively to stop the practice on both sides of the border, Rodriguez to go undercover as a bracero to discover the nature of the illegal smuggling, and Bearnes to go undercover on the US side of the border to discover how these smuggled braceros get work, their employers who would require official work permits. Going through different but similarly often precarious routes, Rodriguez and Bearnes come to the same point in discovering the small group who organize and lead this illegal activity led by a man named Owen Parkson. Without support in being in the field on their own, Rodriguez and Bearnes place their own lives at risk in being caught by Parkson and his band of thugs who are not averse to killing to protect their enterprise.—Huggo
