by Agueda Pacheco Flores
There’s a scene in the movie Problemista when the narrator explains the work visa immigration process in the U.S. When an employer stops sponsoring a worker, that person has a limited amount of time to find a new sponsor before getting deported. In the film, when their time runs out, that person simply fades away wherever they are, doing whatever they may be doing. Everything they were working toward is instantly taken away from them, or, rather, they are taken away from their dreams.
For Alejandro, this is the problem.
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