Give us your tired and poor but keep Cheech Marain.

Cheech Marin writes, directs and stars in "Born In East L.A.", a hip, outrageous comedy that’s based on his best-selling record parody.

The story follows Rudy (Marin), an American of Hispanic descent, whose south-of-the-border looks, show him no mercy during an immigration raid in a migrant worker factory. As his luck goes, he is caught with neither money nor his ID and is deported to Mexico without speaking a word of Spanish!

Unable to contact his vacationing family or his newly immigrated cousin (played by comedian Paul Rodriguez), Rudy is in for a crazy ride as he tries every legal - and illegal - scheme he can think of to get back home to the States.

He finds himself in jail, in love, and practically in-sane! Trouble follows him everywhere as he runs from la migra in this case of mistaken or rather misplaced identity.