Although from 2008, Sleep Dealer is a profoundly current dystopian science fiction, as it invites the audience to reflect on the ethical consequences derived by the implementation of the U.S.-Mexico economic relations through artificial intelligence, virtuality, and cybernetics. In the movie, political and geographical borders are overcome by digital work which, understood as a pure mental labor force, is virtually conducted from the Mexican side of the border through the cyber space. This space allows the exploitation of the labor of young Latin American workers in the United States without needing, nor allowing, the physical presence of their bodies. As a result, the “two countries—one economy” doctrine that has characterized the relationship between Mexico and the U.S. since its very inception is obviously enriching in monetary terms, but devastating at the human level. The exposure of this mentality, ultimately, urges the audience to consider, as another down side of today’s pervasive digital culture, the ethnic and racial implications that may be embedded in the promotion of a virtual work that, while unconcerned by political and geographical frontiers, actually forbids and criminalize the passage of a specific demographic.