“The Arroyo glorifies vigilante tactics while portraying immigrants fleeing violence, destitution and corruption as animalistic criminals…”
A prominent immigration attorney has criticized the new film The Arroyo for its portrayal of life on the American border.
Elizabeth Ricci, a high-profile immigration attorney, criticized the new film’s glorification of individual initiative in the face of failed government response:
The Arroyo glorifies vigilante tactics while portraying immigrants fleeing violence, destitution and corruption as animalistic criminals and does nothing to address the underlying issue of fixing America’s broken immigration system-a job Constitutionally limited to the federal government, not American border ranchers.
The film, a modern western, revolves around the struggles of an American rancher and his family to handle the escalating violence enacted by the drug cartels on the border. Contrary to Ricci’s critique, the film makes clear that the villains are not the immigrants attempting to cross the border, but the cartels exploiting the situation for their purposes, and those politicians ignoring the reality of the tragedy playing out on America’s southern border.
Truth Revolt Editor-in-Chief Ben Shapiro noted how The Arroyo correctly predicted the citizen revolt against a passive immigration stance that resulted in the defeat of House majority leader Eric Cantor.
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