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  • How 'Machete' inflames immigration debate

    08/31/2010 6:00:04 PM PDT · by La Lydia · 7 replies
    Hollywood Reporter ^ | August 31, 2010 | Jay A. Fernandez and Borys Kit
    In Robert Rodriguez's new grindhouse feature "Machete," the vengeful title character uses vicious cutlery to butcher his enemies. Could something similar happen to the movie when it's released next week? "Machete's" convoluted story explicitly takes place amid the current powder keg of an immigration debate and on the heels of Arizona's controversial anti-illegal immigration legislation. Crooked politicians, powerful drug kingpins, malicious border vigilantes, antsy day laborers, conflicted customs agents and angry revolutionaries seethe along the U.S.-Mexico border in Rodriguez's film... ... about a former federale who gets mixed up in a messy conspiracy on the U.S. side of the border,...