The opening titles say that American companies are taking advantage of the North American Free Trade Agreement by opening big factories right across the border between the United States and Mexico. In order to make a lot of things, the maquiladoras hire mostly Mexican women to work long hours for low pay. Lauren Adrian (Jennifer Lopez), an American reporter for the "Chicago Sentinel" who is very interested in the war in Iraq, wants to be sent to the front lines to cover it. Instead, her editor, George Morgan (Martin Sheen), tells her to look into a series of murders of young factory workers in a Mexican border town.
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The opening titles say that American companies are taking advantage of the North American Free Trade Agreement by opening big factories right across the border between the United States and Mexico. In order to make a lot of things, the maquiladoras hire mostly Mexican women to work long hours for low pay. Lauren Adrian (Jennifer Lopez), an American reporter for the "Chicago Sentinel" who is very interested in the war in Iraq, wants to be sent to the front lines to cover it. Instead, her editor, George Morgan (Martin Sheen), tells her to look into a series of murders of young factory workers in a Mexican border town.
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