Lalo Alcaraz Warns the Sensitive to Avoid Seth MacFarlane's New Show, 'Bordertown' Jennifer Goren - PRI.org
go to original June 26, 2015

Join Executive Producer Mark Hentemann as he gives a closer look at the all-new animated series Bordertown. (Animation Domination)

If you've ever felt guilty for laughing at a Seth MacFarlane show like "Family Guy," get ready to do it again. His latest offering, "Bordertown," is set to air on Fox in January.

This story is based on a radio interview. Listen to the full interview.

The show is set in a fictitious Texas town near the US-Mexico border. The main characters are Ernesto Gonzales, a Mexican immigrant who's been in the US for decades, and his underachieving border guard of a neighbor, Bud Buckwald, an updated Archie Bunker type who can't understand why his world is changing.

"It's set in a border town, but it's really a metaphor for the changing demographics of the US," says Lalo Alcaraz, who's spent more than 20 years documenting immigration and Latino issues in his politically themed syndicated cartoon, "La Cucaracha." La Cucaracha, May 22, 2015. Lalo Alcaraz's comic strip has been running since 2002 and is the only political Latino-themed syndicated daily comic strip in the United States.



Lalo Alcaraz's comic strip 'La Cucaracha' has been running since 2002 and is the only political Latino-themed syndicated daily comic strip in the United States. (Lalo Alcaraz/Universal Uclick)

He's also host of the radio show, "Pocho Hour of Power," as well as the guy credited with the satirical coining of the term "self-deportation" in 1994, years before Mitt Romney invoked it as a campaign issue.

Alcaraz is now also a writer and a consulting producer on "Bordertown."

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