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How do Mexicans deported from the US live in their homeland

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Mexican illegal immigrants in the United States expulsion home seems to be a real horror. Many of them came to America as children and only know about Mexico that life there, to put it mildly, is not very ... Therefore, when employees of the migration service report to the already displaced adults about deportation, they are almost saying goodbye to life. Recall, in February, for example, one illegal preferred commit suicide, just not to return to their historic homeland.

The total expulsion of illegal immigrants was one of Donald Trump's campaign promises. He spoke particularly harshly about the Mexicans, calling them rapists, criminals and drug dealers. However, Mexico itself is not happy about the return of prodigal sons. On why in their homeland they are waiting for unemployment, humiliation and the power of crime, says lenta.ru.

I'm going home

“Welcome home!” - a friendly man in a formal suit addresses dozens of fellow citizens who are leaving the arrivals area of ​​Mexico City airport with honor. They have years of living in the USA behind them: many have never even been to Mexico at a conscious age. Each arrival will receive a gift from their forgotten homeland: a ham and cheese sandwich and a booklet with information about the city’s social services. Recently, the need for sandwiches and booklets has increased sharply: planes with illegal immigrants arrive three times a week.

One of the most ambitious plans of 44 US President was to conduct a migration reform. Barack Obama, judging that expelling 11 millions of illegal immigrants to their homeland would not succeed anyway, he tried to pass a law that would allow the most deserving of them to obtain citizenship. But this does not mean that under Obama the deportations were not carried out - on the contrary, even a kind of record was made: 3 million people were expelled from the country.

The current owner of the White House has not yet decided what to do with the frozen project conceived by his predecessor migration amnesty. However, it is unlikely that this part of Obama’s legacy will not be buried by Trump. Especially since he has already expanded the powers of the security forces: now they are deported not only criminals, but also ordinary violators of the migration regime, often without even a court decision.

Life under the bridge and flat in the pipe

Many deported Mexicans are reluctant to integrate into their new homeland. They tend to settle in the border city of Tijuana. Here it is easier for relatives from the north to visit them - many of those deported still have children and spouses in the States - and it is easier to try to once again enter American territory.

In Tijuana, Catholic priests organized an orphanage for illegal immigrants. Casa del Migrante: a portion of soup, a bed, a wash-shave ... But it is not able to provide with all necessary, as well as accept every deportee. Lodgers Casa del Migrante trying to find at least some income. Everything suits: the sale of fruit, wiping windshields of cars at intersections and, of course, crime of varying degrees of severity. Among those expelled from the United States are many criminals, illegal immigrants with tattoos of Los Angeles gangs, once in Mexico, join the armies of local drug cartels.

The Mexican authorities are not happy with such compatriots, but they prefer to fight the problem using traditional methods - from time to time police raids are carried out in El Bordo, shacks are burned and bulldozed. Sometimes it comes to outright bullying: patrol officers watch a person, and if he stands in one place for too long, he is arrested for allegedly interfering with the passage of citizens. Those who are trying to return to the United States arouse the interest of criminal structures - bandits catch them on the way to the border, believing that if they are so eager to go to America, it means that there are relatives there who are ready to pay a ransom.

Residents of Tijuana consider El Bordo, a sewage canal with concrete banks, to be a real breeding ground for crime. The most unfortunate deportees settle here. They live in pipes, shacks made of cardboard and tin sheets, and wash their patched clothes in fetid waters. You can buy a dose of heroin here for just $4. Up to 70% of the guests at the improvised camp are infected with hepatitis.

At El Bordo, people line up every morning for free soup from Catholic priests. In addition, it is possible to make a 3-minute call to the USA. Then someone goes to beg, someone to steal, and someone tries to earn a living by honest work.

“A normal person comes here and literally in a week turns into a notorious drug addict,” he said The Telegraph Father Oscar Hernandez, one of those priests who provides food for former illegal immigrants. According to him, the brothers interviewed guests of the soup kitchen: on average, they lived in the United States without 17 documents for years.

Mexico for returnees

Somos mexicanos (“We are Mexicans”), in addition to sandwiches at the border, provides a one-time unemployment payment, free medical examination, travel to any city or village in the country and assistance in finding employment. But it is still not possible to integrate all the deportees - the returnees live in isolation and communicate mainly only with their comrades in misfortune.

“They sometimes know English better than Spanish. They come to Mexico without knowing their homeland at all. They may know, of course, that they were born here, but that’s all,” the director told CNN Somos mexicanos Dalia Gabriela Garcia Akoltsi.

Proficiency in English is the main skill of most deportees. Few become teachers - the level of knowledge and lack of diplomas do not allow it, but North American collection agencies are willing to open call document- centers in a neighboring country, and yesterday’s illegal immigrants, in good English, persuade US citizens to repay their debts and live according to the law. Another option is to go into the tourism sector, which caters primarily to American tourists.

But there is not enough work for everyone, and the deportees often have to rely on the help of their relatives, who are not always happy about their return to Mexico.

“If you don’t send dollars, your family doesn’t really like you anymore,” she admitted to the publication VICE Laura Lopez. According to her, society also does not accept former fellow citizens: in 5 months of living in her homeland, she suffered more discrimination than in 16 years in the United States. Mexicans look at the returnees (they are called by the offensive nickname “pocho”) with suspicion: they, they say, decided not to build happiness in their native land with blood and sweat, but chose the easy path of illegal immigrants.

Despite the formal efforts of the authorities, it is indeed difficult for many to settle down at home. “You are literally pulled to the bottom there. There are so many troubles that constantly get in the way, suck you in, and you need to grit your teeth and break through,” said The Washington Post 23-year-old José Manuel Torres.

He was not taken to a state university, which refused to recognize a school education certificate issued in the USA, and he went to work in call document-centre, and then an acquaintance still got a job in high school - he can be said lucky.

Wholes are written for the deportees leadership, which tells how they will be deported, what documents are needed in their old new homeland and where they can get a job (this chapter, however, is preceded by the phrase “Mexican salaries are bad, really bad...”).

And we like her

However, the most successful deported Mexicans are not discouraged and are trying to realize the American dream in their new homeland, although the salaries here are several times lower.

“I had a really good life there in the US. I had a family, I had everything that an ordinary American has. Well, now I'm here, so why not achieve the same thing? It won’t be easy at first, but anything is possible!” he says in an interview. CNN Jorge Matadamas, expelled from the United States for driving while intoxicated.

But he does not refuse the intention to return to the United States: Matadamas suddenly remembered that he had been abused by his father and applied for a U-category American visa issued to victims of crime. For consideration of the application will take several years.

Although returnees in modern Mexico are not accepted by the state, society, or even families, experts are trying to see at least some benefit in mass deportations. “When we sent these people, these hard workers to the United States, we lost a lot of talent, we paid a huge price as a nation. Now they are returning, often with a high level of training, and they have the opportunity to serve Mexico with dignity,” said The Washington Post economist Luis de la Caye.

According to him, in the near future the labor market will become more competitive and wages will fall, but in the long run the influx of talented and enterprising people will still improve the economy and, as a result, will help Mexico on its way to economic prosperity. De la Caye did not say, however, whether his new compatriots would want to serve someone else’s homeland.

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