Deported

06/10/20 • 29 min

What does it feel like to be deported from the place you've spent your entire adult life? This episode, I speak to Jesus Ortiz, who was ripped away from his family in the United States and forced to return to Mexico. Jesus has an incredible personal story, but his experience reveals just as much about American immigration policy and Mexican attitudes towards outsiders.
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Lost in Mexico - Deported

Transcript

Nita: To start, a confession. When my husband Kiran and I visited Mexico City for the first time in 2018, we asked a mariachi band to play Despacito for us. While wearing oversized sombreros. And then posted about it on Facebook. So our attempts to win the respect of Mexicans didn’t get off to a great start.
Now that we’ve lived in Mexico City for six months, we’re starting to feel like we fit in. At least until I spoke to my friend Dennis: “Like your face