Posted on 03/11/2018 11:49:51 AM PDT by BBell
On a recent Wednesday morning in Mexico City’s International Airport, family members gathered anxiously for the latest slew of arrivals. The cordon can be a place for joyful reunions, but on three days each week a more somber drama unfolds: Here, every Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday, about 130 deported Mexican citizens arrive home.
The minutes ticked by slowly until finally the deportees stumbled in, clutching their meagre belongings and their crumpled deportation documents. Each had a plastic bag containing a sandwich and a bottle of juice. For many of the younger arrivals, this was their first experience of Mexico.
Walking wearily into the hall was Fernando Alvarez, 25, who was detained on Dec. 19, and had spent Christmas and New Year’s Eve in detention. Taken to the U.S. by his Mexican parents when he was just two years old, Alvarez grew up in California before moving to Chicago five years ago. “It’s a new place,” he said in perfect California English as he looked blearily around the terminal. “I’m the new kid. But I still feel like I’m an American, bro. A Mexican American.”
Waiting to greet Alvarez and other young deportees was Israel Concha, 38, who knows the feeling all too well. Broad-shouldered and barrel-chested, Concha wore a fluorescent green t-shirt emblazoned with ‘New Comienzos’ or ‘New Beginnings,’ the name of the organization he founded in 2015 to support young undocumented Mexicans or ‘Dreamers’ returning to Mexico.
A former Dreamer himself, Concha was deported after thirty years living in the U.S. “I felt like zero, like garbage, like scum,” says Concha, describing himself as being marched back into Mexico in 2014. “That’s when I thought about the pledge of allegiance I’d taken every morning in elementary school. I thought, where’s the liberty? Where’s the justice for all?”
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They could get very busy.
Time for them to clean up their own nation, sounds like.
Sounds like a win-win for the USA and Mexico.
Don’t break into other people’s country.
“Liberty and justice for all” doesn’t apply to illegal aliens. I’d see all 50 million frog marched to the border,
130 is a tiny drop in the bucket of what should be arriving in Mexico.
He says he feels like a Mexican American. Well, sonny boy, either you’re American or not. There’s no Mexican or black or whatever to it. American, period.
He’s 25 so had every opportunity at a great education. If he took advantage of that, he should be able to walk into any company and be hired one the spot.
You are there, you imbecile!
Idiot paradise. What you and other illegal primitives have been working to turn my country, The United States of America into.
Now don't forget!
YOU
Can't
Come
Back!
Can’t believe Time actually wrote:
“about 130 deported Mexican citizens arrive home”
I am happy that one deportee found his mission to help his countrymen & women who return to their native country, Mexico!
What they didn’t write was that the 25 year old probably was MS13!
Concha, describing himself as being marched back into Mexico in 2014. “That’s when I thought about the pledge of allegiance I’d taken every morning in elementary school. I thought, where’s the liberty? Where’s the justice for all?”
You have been served your due and equal justice under the law.
If you were illegal, unlawfully, DACA or other status you should have taken great care not violate further laws and break them.
Violence, drug dealing, gang membership, ETC are why they were deported as Mexican citizens or citizens of other nations.
No one really cares if you are here, so long as you do not engage in felonious behavior.
Get a speeding ticket? Don’t care.
Cited for jaywalking? Don’t care.
Beat a woman? You are gone.
Joined a gang? Bye.
Robbed anyone? Later.
Be a good and decent person and stay as long as you want and I don’t care.
“That’s when I thought about the pledge of allegiance I’d taken every morning in elementary school. I thought, where’s the liberty? Where’s the justice for all?”
This statement alone shows his credibility is not to be believed. California, Chicago? How many schools can any list as reciting the Pledge of Allegiance every morning? That list to be notarized please. And LIBERTY for all. That’s ALL AMERICAN, sport! You by definition are NOT an American. Take your naturalization test and try again. Learn our Constitution and what it means. Oh, forgot you went to school in California and Chicago - places common to many who know little about how this country should work.
They could MMGFTFT...Make Mexico Great for the First Time
Covered in my subsequent post.
I suspect most of us don’t care if anyone is here, so long as they good and decent people who couldn’t allow themselves to ever knowingly or intentionally being involved in act, of their own volition, which would deprive anyone of their liberty or pursuit of happiness or take any measure of another’s life in part or the destruction of their ability to breathe fresh God blessed air.
“I’m the new kid. But I still feel like I’m an American, bro. A Mexican American.”
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Nope. You’re either American or you aren’t. You aren’t.
They can start by helping clean up their corrupt cesspool of a country.
That is amazing, that they correctly identified as as to what they are, Mexican citizens.
Yep. Trump's DACA offer would have covered 1.8 million of them, with a 10-year review cycle, and a path to citizenship. And the Dems turned it down. And Trump said yesterday that he knew they would, and I believe him. He also said that they were "catching hell" from the people affected and I believe that too.
That's a pretty significant betrayal. When your opponent offers you most of what you want and your ostensible friends say, "No, all or nothing!" and it turns out to be nothing, and those "friends" start high-fiving one another as if they've won some sort of victory, it gets pretty obvious that they're not really your friends at all. And from the Dems' point of view this isn't really a good time for that sort of epiphany. November is closing fast, and that was a terrible message to send.
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