[…] tickets are available citywide in yellow automated machines at selected stops or at magazine and tobacco shops.

The film renders meaningless nativist claims of insider status in contrast to the supposed alien status of Mexicans, dissolving these claims in the nightmarish reality of having no more Mexican and Latin American labor on the highways, in the kitchens, in the factories, in the vineyards, or anywhere else in the infrastructure of Gringolandia.

the slavering cudden, propped upon his staff

When someone has bought their first house, they are said to have got on the ladder.