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These Dreamers Were Deported to Mexico. Now, They're Helping Others Start Again
http://time.com/ ^ | 3/9/18 | OSCAR LOPEZ

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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TOPICS: Society
KEYWORDS: aliens; deported; dreamers; illegalaleins; mexico
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To: Robert DeLong

My jaw dropped reading that line...


21 posted on 03/11/2018 12:36:36 PM PDT by Vendome (I've Gotta Be Me https://youtu.be/wH-pk2vZG2M)
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To: BBell

“Where’s the Liberty? Where’s the Justice for all?”

With God’s help under which this country was founded, those rights will again belong to those who also accept the correlative duty that accompanies all rights;to obey the law.


22 posted on 03/11/2018 12:45:11 PM PDT by amihow
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To: BBell

Boo-hoo.....


23 posted on 03/11/2018 12:55:12 PM PDT by Bigg Red (Francis is a Nincompope.)
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To: BBell

Boo-hoo.....


24 posted on 03/11/2018 12:55:12 PM PDT by Bigg Red (Francis is a Nincompope.)
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To: bigbob

LOL!


25 posted on 03/11/2018 1:10:40 PM PDT by vpintheak (Freedom is not equality; and equality is not freedom!)
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To: bell; Vendome; bigbob

Which is a better idea?

Turn America into Mexico/Central America;
or, try to turn Mexico into America?

Hmmmm; let’s check the ‘border’.


26 posted on 03/11/2018 1:44:06 PM PDT by A strike (" ... you're killin' me Smalls.")
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To: vpintheak

Speaking as an American who lived in Mexico for twenty years: Migration from Mexico has been the safety valve for corrupt administrations that have shipped money to Swiss banks and done nothing for their people. The very best thing that could happen to Mexico is to return these educated young people to their mother country to effect change. They have seen what is possible in a country with a vibrant economy and a democratic process and they will not tolerate a Mexico as it is today...there will be revolution.


27 posted on 03/11/2018 2:04:44 PM PDT by dunblak
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To: BBell
he said in perfect California English

they speak California English in Chicago?

28 posted on 03/11/2018 2:16:01 PM PDT by blueplum ( "...this moment is your moment: it belongs to you... " President Donald J. Trump, Jan 20, 2017)
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To: vpintheak

Now they can turn Mexico into a country where the citizens have a much better way of life, then the Mexico their parents left.


29 posted on 03/11/2018 2:47:41 PM PDT by tillacum (I'm still a Deplorable and I COLLUDED during the election SO THE DONALD could WIN! I voted.)
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To: Vendome
Every now & then the truth slips out because they have a momentary loss of the narrative the are supposed to push. 8>)

Oops!!!!

30 posted on 03/11/2018 2:58:14 PM PDT by Robert DeLong
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To: vpintheak
It is a very touchy subject. If they were all conservative in nature, greatly religious and truly lived an allegiance of themselves to American values and not hyphenated I would fight like Hell for them as the libtards do. I am assuming they would vote Republican but that even could be a stretch. Don't get me wrong, we still would have immigration problems and others associated with it. The "anchor baby" sh*t needs to stop along with some other Constitutional absurdities.

The reality is that most, not all, vote liberal, treat America like Mexico (or fill in the blank with your favorite sh*thole like Somalia etc.) and have just as much, if not more allegiance, to Mexico and being Mexican. They do not subscribe, like most liberals don't, to border,language,culture and American sovereignty under our Constituion. In fact they abuse our system and hide behind our liberties as non Americans. Being American is not a right to the world. It's sickening.

31 posted on 03/11/2018 3:30:51 PM PDT by shanover (...To disarm the people is the best and most effectual way to enslave them.-S.Adams)
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To: dunblak

I agree. They have the opportunity to make Mexico into a great country. Build from their education and experience, start companies and give employment. Mexico is a wealth of natural and human resources. Only the corruption has ruined what could be a great place. The best thing we could do is to send them back. They have a shot. Have a feeling it’s quite a culture shock.


32 posted on 03/11/2018 3:49:37 PM PDT by christie
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To: A strike; bell; bigbob

And that is why I support the wall.

If Mexico were so great it would have the opportunities of tiny Canada, who has 1/3 the number of citizens Mexico has but, a GDP which dwarfs Mexico.

Canaduh GDP: 1.6 trillion, or so.(35 million people)

Mexico GDP: $1.1 trillion(135 million people).

Average

Canaduh $54,

Mexico $10,

Amazingly Mexico’s unemployment rate is 3.4%.

Not sure how they arrive at that number but, if it were true, their citizens would be content to stay in their country, like Canadians.


33 posted on 03/11/2018 4:16:13 PM PDT by Vendome (I've Gotta Be Me https://youtu.be/wH-pk2vZG2M)
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To: BBell
A true "feel good" article!

More is better, when it comes to kicking the migrant invaders out of OUR country!

34 posted on 03/11/2018 5:08:04 PM PDT by SuperLuminal (Where is another agitator for republicanism like Sam Adams when we need him?)
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