Film Prods Politicos to Grasp Truth About Immigration

Latin American Tribune: The new movie “Immigration Tango” points out the need for politicians to understand the truth about immigration, because, according to one of its leading actors, they currently “don’t know how to dance in time with their citizens.” “‘Immigration Tango’ is about the difficult dance people do, despite the annoying pitfalls, to try and stay in this country,” one of the film’s stars, Carlos Leon, tells Efe. “Nonetheless, it takes two to tango, and most politicians don’t want to dance the immigration tango, and the few who do have two left feet,” said, Leon, best-known as the father of singer Madonna’s 14-year-old daughter, Lourdes Maria. “Immigration Tango,” a 92-minute film produced by Mutressa Movies, has premiered in a number of movie theaters in New York, Miami, Phoenix, Houston and Los Angeles. Under the slogan “It Takes 4 to Tango,” the film written and directed by David Burton Morris tells the story of an undocumented couple, Russian student Elena (Bulgarian actress Elika Portnoy) and Colombian Carlos (Carlos Leon), who agree with some American friends to swap partners to get married and in that way obtain legal residence. But the situation gets complicated when Betty (Ashley Wolfe) and Mike (McCaleb Burnett) are investigated together with Elena and Carlos by immigration agents. “Our movie is a kind of criticism that will help people see that immigration laws in the United States are ridiculous,” said Leon, who has acted in more than 20 films. “I’m the son of Cuban immigrants who came here at the end of the 1950s, but like any other American I don’t think we have to deport people – many of them have children born here and I’m not sure that that helps the United States maintain its humanitarian image,” he said.