Stuck in Tijuana Hoping for a Miracle: The Deportees with Nowhere to Go Rory Carroll - The Guardian
go to original April 18, 2014

Life in the Deportee Slums of Mexico (vice)

Ricardo Sanchez came to the United States from his native Mexico, illegally, when he was nine. He grew up, got married, raised five children. During the day, he sold fruit from a stall; nights, he cooked in a restaurant, where his specialty was a steak with blue cheese, bacon and bourbon sauce that the regulars knew by his name.

He built a life.

Last month, police caught Sanchez, who is now 34 years old, driving without a license, and handed him over to immigration authorities. Within days, he was walking into Tijuana, a city alien to him, the gate to the US clanging shut behind. As he moved forward through a metal passageway, he could see a concrete riverbed of slime dotted with the homes of some of his fellow deportees – shacks, sometimes, or just holes dug into the muck by hand.

He shuddered, later, thinking of it. “That’s grim, man,” he said, in fluent English.

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