J.E #8

Before this class I did not know anything about the women getting married in Juarez.  I know that before the film began you told us that Nava and Jennifer Lopez were boo when they were awarded the humanity award.  I  personally really enjoyed the film and not having any prior knowledge besides "Desert Blood" I did find it very informative.  I saw some relationship between the book and the film.  They both mentioned how the murders were trying to be placed on the Egyptian and how it was a corrupt system of NAFTA and those in power.  So i personally don't see what was wrong with the film and thought if you did not know anything about the murder women of Juarez this gives you a good sense of what is going on.

I think what really shocked me from "Desert Blood" and what really pissed me of was how the Border Patrol was seen as this hero and how he was working under cover to solve these murders I almost threw the book how mad I was.  I couldn't believe how corrupt the system really was and how they covered it all up.  I think why it really upset me was because I want to work for border patrol because I think many Mexican American should work there because one we can understand the language of the immigrants and help them out and make sure there not mistreated.  Knowing that that border patrol is so corrupt and involved in killings just to make a quick buck I don't know if to follow my career path.

The Politics that shocked me from the film was how much power NAFTA actually has and politicians and how a newspaper in Chicago will hold a story because they ask them to.  Knowing there power and how a newspaper in the U.S so far away from El Paso would conform to what they want.  How easy it is to buy any one and how the editor said American Corporation owns us and we conform to them.  So how can we really rely on the news if they only inform us of what is okay for us to know or change it to make us thing everything is okay.

To bring in Entry Denied into context we could see how women have always been targeted.  With the page law and how they didn't not want chinese to come into the US or Mexican women in because they would become a public charge.  If they didn't come to the US with out a husband then they will come to the US to prostitute themselves and they were immoral and would destroy the "American" way of life.  Women have never been seen as important and target them.

Overall I feel that reading "Desert Blood" and then watching "Bordertown" really help to inform me about the murdered women of Juarez. Of course I know that off these two texts I don't know the whole story but at least I'm not ignorant anymore and know at least a general idea of what is happening to all these women and how so many of them are being killed and kidnapped.