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  • Not to mention entirely impractical. sin papeles says:

    Matthew Yglesias » The Conservative Immigration Split 2010

  • Of course a negative answer, prompts them to ask for "papeles", or for that matter any other suspicious answers or looks. (yes profiling is alive and well at the border, not that there is anything wrong with that, in my opinion, I witnessed its application and success at the Harlingen, TX airport near the border.)

    Red Light.....Green Light 1919

  • Of course a negative answer, prompts them to ask for "papeles", or for that matter any other suspicious answers or looks. (yes profiling is alive and well at the border, not that there is anything wrong with that, in my opinion, I witnessed its application and success at the Harlingen, TX airport near the border.)

    Red Light.....Green Light 1919

  • Of course a negative answer, prompts them to ask for "papeles", or for that matter any other suspicious answers or looks. (yes profiling is alive and well at the border, not that there is anything wrong with that, in my opinion, I witnessed its application and success at the Harlingen, TX airport near the border.)

    Red Light.....Green Light 1919

  • Of course a negative answer, prompts them to ask for "papeles", or for that matter any other suspicious answers or looks. (yes profiling is alive and well at the border, not that there is anything wrong with that, in my opinion, I witnessed its application and success at the Harlingen, TX airport near the border.)

    Red Light.....Green Light 1919

  • Of course a negative answer, prompts them to ask for "papeles", or for that matter any other suspicious answers or looks. (yes profiling is alive and well at the border, not that there is anything wrong with that, in my opinion, I witnessed its application and success at the Harlingen, TX airport near the border.)

    Red Light.....Green Light 1919

  • Of course a negative answer, prompts them to ask for "papeles", or for that matter any other suspicious answers or looks. (yes profiling is alive and well at the border, not that there is anything wrong with that, in my opinion, I witnessed its application and success at the Harlingen, TX airport near the border.)

    Red Light.....Green Light 1919

  • Of course a negative answer, prompts them to ask for "papeles", or for that matter any other suspicious answers or looks. (yes profiling is alive and well at the border, not that there is anything wrong with that, in my opinion, I witnessed its application and success at the Harlingen, TX airport near the border.)

    Red Light.....Green Light 1919

  • Of course a negative answer, prompts them to ask for "papeles", or for that matter any other suspicious answers or looks. (yes profiling is alive and well at the border, not that there is anything wrong with that, in my opinion, I witnessed its application and success at the Harlingen, TX airport near the border.)

    Red Light.....Green Light 1919

  • Of course a negative answer, prompts them to ask for "papeles", or for that matter any other suspicious answers or looks. (yes profiling is alive and well at the border, not that there is anything wrong with that, in my opinion, I witnessed its application and success at the Harlingen, TX airport near the border.)

    Red Light.....Green Light 1919

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  • Directed by Michael Winterbottom (24 Hour Party People), this science-fiction thriller presents the story of a doomed love affair set in the near future. Here, privileged classes live and work inside cities; while non-citizens are left to eek out a miserable existence outside the city walls in vast deserts. No one may leave their designated zones without special visas known as “papeles.�? William Geld (played by Tim Robbins) is a Seattle investigator sent to Shanghai to ferret out the culprit responsible for producing fraudulent papels. During his investigation, William meets Maria Gonzalez (played by Samantha Morton), a woman with whom he has a passionate affair that leads him to break one of the society’s most severe laws – Code 46. 93 Minutes

    October 31, 2007