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* [[Be Careful What You Wish For]]

* [[Border Patrol]]: The "pink fog" that cuts off the state's communications from the rest of the world, and of course the real life one.

* [[Children Are Innocent]]: The child of the anti-immigrant activist.

* [[Deus Ex Machina]]: Type 3. ~~Its~~ established that mass disappearance is possible

* [[Deus Ex Machina]]: Type 3. It's established that mass disappearance is possible.

* [[Fake Nationality]]: It becomes a [[Running Gag]] in the way the film plays with it. It's stated that the ~~LATINOS~~ are disappearing, Mexicans being the most notable case. When a character is surprised that her white friend Monica was Latina, it's because they say she is Argentinian. Argentina has a very large white population, mainly from Italy, Spain and Eastern Europe.

* [[Fake Nationality]]: It becomes a [[Running Gag]] in the way the film plays with it. It's stated that the ''Latinos'' are disappearing, Mexicans being the most notable case. When a character is surprised that her white friend Monica was Latina, it's because they say she is Argentinian. Argentina has a very large white population, mainly from Italy, Spain and Eastern Europe.

** After the disappearances, some Europeans and Middle Easterners are shown saying that they are sick and tired of being confused with Mexicans, and then this is parodied later in the film when ~~its~~ ~~shown~~ a spoof ad for the Border Patrol with the very same aforementioned people standing in for illegal immigrants.

** After the disappearances, some Europeans and Middle Easterners are shown saying that they are sick and tired of being confused with Mexicans, and then this is parodied later in the film when it shows a spoof ad for the Border Patrol with the very same aforementioned people standing in for illegal immigrants.

** {{spoiler|Then there's the "last of her kind" reporter mentioned below who is believed to be the last Mexican in ~~entire~~ California... until it is revealed to both her and the audience that she is in reality an Armenian adopted by a Mexican couple (who also vanished), then she says that [[Subverted Trope|her whole life she had considered herself Mexican and that she will continue to do so in her heart]], and then she starts vanishing in front of the cameras}}.

** {{spoiler|Then there's the "last of her kind" reporter mentioned below who is believed to be the last Mexican in all of California... until it is revealed to both her and the audience that she is in reality an Armenian adopted by a Mexican couple (who also vanished), then she says that [[Subverted Trope|her whole life she had considered herself Mexican and that she will continue to do so in her heart]], and then she starts vanishing in front of the cameras}}.

* [[Human Interest Story]]: the sort of reporting one of our leads was forced to do until she became the apparent Last of Her Kind.

* [[Last of His Kind|Last of Her Kind]]: ~~people~~ believe there to be exactly ''one'' Mexican in California for most of this film.

* [[Last of His Kind|Last of Her Kind]]: People believe there to be exactly ''one'' Mexican in California for most of this film.

* [[National Stereotypes]]: Parodied and subverted.

* [[Played for Laughs]]

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[[Category:Films of the 2000s]]

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