Alex Rivera's Sleep Dealer (2008) depicts a world in which Mexican workers are connected to cables through implanted nodes in their arms and back. These cables wire them into a network through which they control robots on the other side of an impenetrable Mexico-U.S. border wall. These ____________ bodies are eventually used up and discarded.

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The implanted nodes and wired network connecting the workers to the robots on the other side of the border wall make them cyborgs. The term "biometric" refers to the use of unique physical characteristics for identification or authentication, which is not the focus of the film. "Sonography" is a medical imaging technique and "empirical" refers to observations based on evidence and data, neither of which are relevant to the description of the workers in Sleep Dealer.

Alex Rivera's Sleep Dealer (2008) Depicts a World in Which