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He was wanted in Mexico in connection with the April 9 shooting death of Mexican police commander Abigail Esparza Reyes, which took place during an attempt to arrest him in Tijuana.

On Wednesday, the environmental group American Rivers ranked the Tijuana River No. 2 on its annual list of the nation’s most endangered rivers, up from No. 9 on the list last year.

At the heart of the dispute is a treaty that requires the two nations to divide the flows from three rivers — the Rio Grande, the Colorado and the Tijuana — across their shared 2,000-mile border.

In “Sleep Dealer,” the international borders are closed, but U.S. corporations continue to privatize natural resources and exploit workers in Mexico, where we find our protagonist, a Tijuana robot operator named Memo Cruz.

With the U.S. rebuffing would-be asylum seekers, shelters in Tijuana are no longer full.