Deported by the US to Mexico: Life on the Tijuana Border | American Immigration Documentary

I was deported with a guy it was like ah how old was he like 20 21 and he asked me hey is it hard to learn Spanish I said what do you mean why why are you asking me you don't speak Spanish because no somebody you better learn Spanish quick yeah he was being deported did not speak Spanish at all how's he gonna survive I mean you know I mean come on I mean like they say repatriate how they gonna repatriate you to some country that you don't never that you've never even lived in how does that work foreign the storm making landfall overnight is a category four down in Texas and Louisiana Fierce winds reaching 150 miles an hour that happened overnight now Category 2 hurricane is how we categorize it meanwhile Brian the storm exploding Transformers leaving 400 000 people without electricity at this hour meanwhile Charles Watson is live on the ground in Port Arthur Texas which has been to the west of the center of the storm Charles that goes gorgeous near the wall impossible has happened [Applause] he went to the Apex do I feel at home no [Music] foreign doesn't it look like if I've never even unpacked I'm not comfortable here mentally I'm not here physically I'm not there I'm in limbo I'm in I'm in no man's land I'm on the line I'm literally online [Music] my name is Richard Avila I'm a military veteran raised in East Los Angeles California lived in the United States all my life finally deported [Music] I lost my life I lost my job I lost my car I lost my girl I lost my family I mean you know that's a lot of stuff to carry spend a lot of time at home because I don't like it out there the longer I live here in Tijuana it's just unhealthy [Music] thank you for calling Liberty cash lenders my name is Richard may I have your social security number to better assist you please yes Richard 469-5729 [Music] foreign you might qualify for six thousand dollars a loan okay would that be today are you saying that you need to be funded by today yes that's what I'm saying I'm working here in Tijuana in the same field and most of the deportees we receive calls from the United States I actually worked for a call center that does loans okay so uh you do need to complete the bank verification section in order to get approved once you're approved we will decide how much you're eligible for [Applause] these companies want English speakers and I need a job [Music] thank you for calling Liberty cash lenders my name is Richard I have your social security number to better assist you please foreign [Music] because the United States deports US to Mexico and then used our skills for a lot less money [Music] but I'm gonna see her as this U.S army officer fights for his country his mother gets kicked out of it she was deported this morning after several attempts to overturn that decision by the time they actually told us that she was still denied she was already in Tijuana her son calls me her immigration meeting only lasted about 30 minutes then was gone she's now in Mexico this is [Music] [Music] [Laughter] [Music] foreign [Music] [Music] oh where no [Laughter] oh mama I miss you one day no two days do you come and see you a thousand days a thousand days very good right here is my gymnastics oh really yes [Music] foreign amazing okay okay my baby do you come and see me I can't really did you love me [Music] foreign [Music] [Music] another foreign [Music] foreign we're going to take a seat right here on the first desk yes please go ahead and take a seat how are you doing today I'm fine very well excellent so I'm doing great thank you um this is your first time applying with us correct yes all right perfect let's see okay how long have you been in Tijuana for um do you know anything that has to do with call centers have you ever been familiarized with what we do in call centers basically we do have contact with um the United States how because we call to them with whatever services that it may be so it's it's a constant communication by the phone okay so what type of job did you do in the United States time for The Gap um in the past many many years among work um and one restaurant and work on the housekeeping okay I'm going to Uber drivers all right but I have a mad property business for 25 years okay do you have any questions on how call centers worked [Music] how long were you living in the United States like 20 no 34 years 34 years I was like since three years old yeah like 34 years okay [Applause] go ahead and tell me a little bit about your work experience well I've always work in a restaurant so I really don't have any like experience like towards like college but do you have any questions any inquiries before we move on to the evaluations no what brings you to a call center yeah I got I got in I lost my papers so they deported me how long were you residing in the United States for 36 years okay this year's and how long have you been in Tijuana for a week and three days okay they came one day to my house and just picked me up ice picked me up and told me that um I was getting deported I started laughing I was like oh I got papers you got the wrong person they came up with my picture this is you isn't it you're getting deported you married do you have any kids yeah Mary okay I've got three three kids three boys and a daughter but I got a two grand one grandkid and a grand can come in on the way okay so yeah are they all in the United States yeah everybody's in the United States what are you expecting most of all from from Mexico first thing trying to you know get independent I'm gonna look for a place to live do my new life here which is scary though today in the morning that I came in the bus yeah I was nervous I was worse you know it was cold but I was sweating I was like man where am I gonna go [Music] foreign foreign there's a lot of names in the website yes okay don't worry we have that covered I'm gonna teach you the flowers of knowledge that's what I need to learn I'm gonna teach you adjectives to describe flowers proud to offer an online selection of Daisy but I can add Beauty to tone of any occasion our finest Gerber days is arrive in an assortment of vibrant Hues have you noticed every time we try to come as a customer let's just add your tips our gerber daisy bouquet was created to spread warmth cheer and light with its amazing blooms and a spirited ray of sunshine to make this day that you're a special recipient will never forget thank you we use the customer's emotions to converse them not always it's going to work guys but the thing upselling is not an option it's an instruction s it was still dark nobody here like okay am I in the right place I was in the bus I was like asking everybody University of Canada [Music] foreign [Music] so we're just gonna have like a little gathering here at the house okay Mama I know I know you're strong I'm strong You're Not Strong I won't be strong you're my backbone what the fuck [Music] them [Music] there's a linear my thing Esposa puta Linea [Music] foreign my name is Richard Dean I'm calling from Liberty cash lenders I'm looking at your online application for an installment loan and I just want to verify a few details is this a good time are you driving no that's my fan you know poor man's air conditioner it's kind of hot over here I'm pretty sure it's hot where you're at too okay well um we're only interested in the last 30 days of your transactions well what happened is about three weeks ago my mother passed away so I took leave and I'm back to work and I'm gonna have a another deposit but I have a pay period that's missing so since you're interested in the last 30 days I know that's going to disqualify me uh all I can say is uh just fill out the complete the application process and see what happens I'm gonna put you on a brief hole Sean uh Rosier yes yes uh yeah I get a lot of a lot of I get a lot of practice right you know with all the cars Sean can you verify your birthday for me please I talk with guys that are like 80 years old some kids that are like 21 years old some nice sounding ladies that are you know you know great we did it Chandra [Music] uh it's kind of like an escape all right electrically sign the loan document I'm so sorry about this that's fine that's fine don't worry about it that's my job this is my job well yeah but I'm making your job difficult uh not really before the second cup of coffee I feel the same way huh it really takes me away from where I'm at but after all that after work TV like I said I feel like I'm in a cage [Music] [Music] from San Diego Magic 92.5 with Jagger and Christy in the morning and Outcast right now [Music] I arrived in the United States when I was one year old I was happy a normal childhood and my issues started in the military and of Vietnam when my cousin died uh I was probably 15. Maybe 60. I had a cousin that I looked up to very much I it was like my my hero he was killed in Vietnam he was a paratrooper Army Airborne and he was killed in Vietnam right so I had already I was already thinking that as soon as I'm old enough I'm gonna join the military go to Vietnam and kill a lot of Vietnamese that's what I was thinking right [Music] me myself I was 17 when I enlisted my mom started crying and everything took a couple of pictures of my dad my dad was all proud the first year I was 100 um committed to the uniform the flag and our mission but once we understood that it was a totally useless War [Music] we started wearing their hair long I can't wear you can't wear a mustache longer than here and people are wearing them down to here you know it was just like don't give a fuck anymore and that's when I first tasted the heroin it was the beginning of the end of my normal life foreign foreign [Music] [Music] foreign [Music] [Music] [Music] foreign [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] foreign it's kind of like what I expected to see Brazilian favelas except less century [Music] [Music] perfect foreign foreign foreign [Music] [Music] salsa verde what are we doing that's wrong what are we doing that's wrong is foreign [Music] foreign [Music] [Music] how may I help you thank you for calling me flowers this is Sergio how may I help you uh you calling the main shop sir and what's her I mean it's a 300 Corporate dresser may I have her phone number please miss Lucius Miss Mary's um phone number in case my driver needs to excuse me where am I from We're located at 300 Corporate we're located at 300 copper drives here in Mawa New Jersey but delivery is never an issue with us we have 20 000 Affiliated floor shops to um to work with us sir so may I have her phone number on any of our local hiking trails pretty comfortable this morning so after about 9 A.M we'll continue we'll start to really warm up and reach 80 degrees by about 10 A.M foreign [Music] I'm gonna Miss chiquitas [Music] passport please [Music] [Music] foreign [Music] [Music] no jewelry [Music] [Music] foreign [Music] foreign [Music] why would you want the car to say sir [Music] Happy Valentine's [Music] my little cebo yeah with double elha yes yes yes anything else oh okay perfect let me just get [Applause] can wait to see you tonight can't wait to see you tonight okay perfect yes I could put rest in peace uh beloved Aunt Uncle I mean uh it's our lady I'm sorry I do apologize about that um we have balloons we have balloons of birthday we have teddy bears um before taxes it will be let me see them check it for you give me one second thank you for holding sure your payment has gone through do you have a pen and paper she could write down the important number one more sale all right let's go for one more [Music] we're gonna focus on AUB your aov is doing great I know because you're new but I know you can do it [Music] foreign [Applause] we're gonna go at it again all right [Music] six seven but it's a Caesar give me aob my boy your conversion is healthy enough give me aobi all right let's focus on aov luxury what is uh what a way of trying to say oh my flowers for whatever ever okay we have uh the dreaming of Tuscany this this and that okay let's go with that one I would recommend her luxury braid because we have more flowers more Bloom yada yada all right all right let's focus on aobi yes 64.99 okay okay we'll get that yes that's correct sir okay I have a question sir would you want to put a matching uh ribbon on your Arrangement today it's the occasion it's for a birthday oh congratulations whose birthday if you don't mind me asking that's you need that because let's what if it was for the was it a lady calling you yeah it was a lady okay what if it was for the daughter she doesn't want to spend money for the daughter okay [Music] give me one more remember we gotta hit him with emotion man emotion make me cry [Music] [Applause] after my military service for the next 30 years I was in a fog [Music] foreign [Music] I was arrested for robbing a store to get money to buy drugs [Music] argue anything you like as to why you deported me any way you look at it you're deporting an American [Music] you'd rather be in Mexico than in the United States like I said if I could go back I would just want to go back and visit a weekend a week and I would come back I don't live in the United States no more it's all fucked up right now if you're not white in America and you know you're caught up in a spot where you know things are happening you know right whatever you could end up being shot really you don't have to be you don't have to be black well you just don't have you just don't have to be white that's all it is you know there's a word called The American Dream well I want to start this that's all it is a dream a dream buddy over there you can have whatever you want but you got to work like you gotta work yourself I mean you got to work you can chase the Mexican dream here no but uh it's run by the cartels cops are criminals he's got a couple of good things over here like what over here I feel legal over here you know we do have a little bit of anger towards the United States for doing what they did to us but if you were legally able to live in the United States yes would you live in Mexico work and live in Mexico no there's no reason to think about it homes of course no no no dude wait wait of course you would I'm thinking about it me personally right now fuck the United States I'm good right here yeah shhh nice hot shower in a bathtub in a bathtub oh really not a shower a bathtub or at least in Howard imagine there's a lot of things you take for granted over there a lot of things you take for granted imagine cross and then have somebody just waiting for yours right there yeah there is I've seen cars yeah me too right here but it's kind of I bet you there's a point over there oh yeah that's what I'm saying there's a pointer has to be something over there over there it has to there's not going to be that easy nah imagine if it was that easy I'll be over there hey mi amor thank you wow yeah was that cross pick me up [Music] like so many people just for players love you too Mama [Music] go back for how long no forever that's ever yeah they later they let we got papers we got papers we got our papers back yeah we're free okay listen we are supposed to be able to agree to disagree because what you say is right no no no I'm not saying I'm not I mean would you really rather live in Mexico than the United States and right now at this point in time but why yes but why I mean you know I mean I'm just trying to understand why over here I can go all over the place right now anywhere ain't nobody gonna tell me how fucking Mexican nobody's gonna tell me that I'm fucking being a fucking this but nobody why because we're all fucking Mexicans over here laughs you know all my nephews and my nieces I don't have any children but all my nephews and nieces from the very beginning they would call me Uncle Richie I don't know what Uncle Richie Richie Richie Richie okay and uh you know I love that they're just they're just a line across the sand they're just on the other side of the Border okay you know but I can't be okay that's what really hurts me okay I gotta go to the bathroom too much beer [Music] Aquila [Music] completely [Music] [Music] La Casa in San Diego is [Music] foreign [Music] [Music] okay la vida is [Music] foreign [Music] [Music] foreign [Music] foreign [Music] [Music] foreign [Music] foreign foreign [Music] [Music] thank you [Music] foreign [Music] [Applause] [Music] foreign [Music] [Music] [Music] foreign [Music] [Music] [Applause] [Music] we are here today to honor those who have fallen and paid the ultimate sacrifice including those who have died while an exile who served this great Foundation Gerardo Garcia U.S Navy present ation Cardenas U.S army presenting president Enrique Salas USMC present president Jose Raul Lopez U.S army presence Army yes [Music] [Music] that is [Music] Familia quieres is okay okay [Music] foreign [Music] thank you [Music] you cannot overthink stuff if something negative is affecting your life don't try to figure it out too much because it will take you to a bad place [Music] [Music] foreign [Music] [Music] [Music] don't let me down [Music] I'm just losing time here you know I would rather die in the United States surrounded by my family my last nephews the last generation that I used to take care of or play with or they're already uh you know 23 years old so you know they even have kids but their kids don't know me they don't know me at all so yeah you're disappearing of course and uh you know and like I said I'm not I'm not vain in any way but I used to love to hear the kids say I'm creepy well I would come when I would get there right it'll I'll never I'll probably never hear that again foreign [Music] foreign [Music] foreign [Music] [Music] unfortunately the application was not approved verify with your bank and come back and do it again [Music] [Music] hello hello who's this I know [Music] how old are you now damn well when did you turn 21 all right to get did you get did you get blasted yeah yeah that's that's the whole idea of being able to present your ID and saying yeah motherfucker again you got to sell it to me now you know I mean yeah man hey yeah it's been a long time man it's last time I saw you were like fuck I don't know hey and uh like I told her rainy man uh I really appreciate you guys sending me that money okay all right all right hey stay cool huh all right okay [Music] foreign [Music] thank you [Music] foreign [Music]

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Length: 68min 17sec (4097 seconds)

Published: Tue Dec 13 2022