On the Outskirts of Downtown Tijuana, a Breakfast Hall for the Stranded Adrian Florido - KPBS.org
go to original June 24, 2013

Deportees form up outside a Tijuana breakfast hall, where many will have their only substantive meal of the day. (Adrian Florido/KPBS)

TIJUANA, Mexico — Every morning, the dozen or so deportee shelters in downtown Tijuana are empty, as people make their way on foot to a bright yellow building on the outskirts of downtown — the Padre Chava breakfast hall.

Most of the roughly 1,100 people who stream through the kitchen on any given morning are deportees, among them are the more than 1.5 million people expelled from the U.S. since 2009. For many in line, this free breakfast will be their only meal of the day.

That would suit Domingo Pomposo just fine, if he could just get back into the U.S. to reunite with his family.

Pomposo lived in San Diego for sixteen years. He had three children there. But two months ago he was deported to Tijuana following a DUI conviction. Now he faces the prospect of crossing a border much more heavily fortified and guarded than it was when he first crossed nearly two decades ago. But Pomposo says it's a question of when, not if.

"It does scare me, but I have to go for my family," he said.

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