Border-Crossing Thriller ‘Desierto’ Uses Trump Remark as Voiceover in Trailer

Gael Garcia Bernal stars in the pic as a Mexican migrant worker who is being hunted down by a U.S. vigilante played by Jeffrey Dean Morgan.

March 30, 2016 1:32pm

Border-Crossing Thriller 'Desierto' Uses Trump Remark Voiceover Trailer — The thriller from **Jonas Cuaron,** who co-wrote *Gravity* with his father **Alfonso Cuaron**, stars **Gael Garcia Bernal** as an illegal immigrant who tries to cross over from Mexican into the U.S., but run afoul of a man (**Jeffrey Dean Morgan**) who has taken up border patrol duties in his own racist hands.
Courtesy of Toronto Film Festival

A new trailer for the Jonas Cuaron immigration thriller Desierto promotes the film’s upcoming Mexico release by employing an anti-immigrant voiceover taken from a controversial Donald Trump speech.

The trailer, released Wednesday, shows migrant workers running for their lives in a desert on the border as a U.S. vigilante shoots and kills them one by one with a rifle.

Border-Crossing Thriller ‘Desierto’ Uses Trump Remark as Voiceover in Trailer

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