These Dreamers Were Deported to Mexico. Now, They're Helping Others Start Again


Time magazine wrote an article on the 130 Mexican deported immigrants that arrive each week. The articled shared a number of stories of people who were born in Mexico, but were raised in the U.S. One of these individuals is, Fernando Alvarez age 25 who was raised in California from the age of 2. He knows more english than spanish and has no idea what to do now that he is back "home". Fernando, along with other deportees met Israel Concha - the founder of New Beginnings, an organization that supports young undocumented Mexicans or Dreamers returning to Mexico. Israel was also raised in the U.S., and he remembers pledging allegiance to the American flag every morning when he was in elementary school. "I thought, where's the liberty? Where's the justice for all? said, Israel Concha.
I think it is cruel to be sent back to a country that you are now accustomed to. Like Fernando and millions of other undocumented immigrants, it is incredibly difficult when you have no one or nowhere to go when you are deported. You grow to love this country can consider yourself an American, only to be shoved out by immigration laws.

http://time.com/5189699/dreamers-deported-mexico-city-new-comienzas/

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