Bordertown

I was watching this movie called the bordertown this morning and it is freaking good!!! I really agree with what JLo said in that movie. A career is a job that you give up everything and put in your all just to get it. You worked very hard for it. When you eventually get it, you realised that you've got nothing, no life.

Anyway, this movie is about the north american free trade agreement. After it was established, many MNCs started setting up factories at the border of mexico. These factories mainly hire young girls even at the age of 16 or 17 because these girls are willing to work long hours and not complain about the meagre pay. They work like for almost 24 hours but they are only paid like 5 dollars a day. These girls are fetched to and fro the factories by buses. Along the way, many of these girls are raped and murdered, their bodies, either buried or thrown into an isolated dump. These isolated lands and dump soon became a mass graveyard. Every night, there would be a girl raped and murdered. The death toll is 5000 and still increasing. This situation has not changed much even till now since these MNCs finds it cheaper to just ignore rather than hire defence forces to protect these girls. Every night an innocent girl dies.

JLo is an american reporter. She was a mexican. When she was young, her parents immigrated to america in search for a better life but were killed. She was then adopted by an american family. While helping a young mexican girl who climbed out of her own grave after being raped and supposedly murdered, to find the 2 culprits and in hope of solving this matter. JLo discovers that the whole matter is covered up by the mexican police since it has a conspiracy with the US government. Many of these rapers and murders are influential people in the mexican government. Thus, their crimes were well covered up.

This movie shows the struggle of a young girl together with JLo to fight for justice for these dead women and what they've been through before their death as JLo fights to tell the story of this young girl and to voice out for the many victims. In the midst of it, she starts to discover and find the courage to face up to her being not a true american but a true mexican, and to search for herself.

It is sad to know that this is still going on. Every night when we are safely asleep, one innocent mexican girl is raped and murdered. The fact is no one dares to report or fight for the truth except for truely brave souls. This is because of bribery and everyone fears the government. MNCs and even the US government are turning a blind eye since through the NAFTA, both the US and mexican governments are benefiting from the revenue earned and high profits. Also, in hope of promoting globalization. In the midst of it, many young lives are cruelly taken away.

To know that the electronic goods that we used today are truly over priced. The labour that made these products are freaking cheap. Can you imagine who would work 24 hours just for 5 dollars? Every second that passes, these factories are able to produce a great number of electronic goods.

There is nothing anyone can do about this situation. These young girls are brutally raped and murdered yet not given any protection. Hopefully, more voluntary organizations could be set up to offer at least some protection for these girls.