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🗓️ 10 July 2024
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In 2009, Gloria Arellano de la Rosa was banned from re-entering the U.S. for ten years, finding herself separated from her four children and husband. But unlike Daniel Zamora, she didn’t remake her life in Mexico. Every day she waited to go home to the U.S. Fernanda Echavarri tells the story of what happens when Gloria finally returns to the States and reunites with her family.
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0:51.0 | As we've been producing this story about Daniel Samora and his return to Mexico, I've |
0:56.3 | been thinking about my six years as a producer on NPR's Latino USA, where we covered |
1:01.0 | a lot of immigration stories. |
1:03.8 | And there was one story in particular |
1:05.8 | that my former colleague, |
1:06.9 | Fernando Chabari, reported on that kept coming up for me. |
1:10.6 | Another story of a family separated by the border. It was about a family in Tucson, Arizona |
1:16.2 | that had been split up in 2009. |
1:18.6 | The dad and all four kids, ages four to 16, were all US citizens, but the mom, Gloria, was undocumented. |
1:28.0 | And in the process of trying to get her green card, she was required to travel to Mexico, where she was barred from |
1:34.8 | returning to the US for 10 years. The 10-year bar to reentry is the punishment for |
1:40.3 | being in the states without documentation for over a year. |
1:44.0 | And it doesn't mean you could automatically come back in 10 years. |
1:47.0 | It just means you have to wait 10 years before you can legally try to apply. |
1:51.0 | But I need to somewhat have received the same penalty. |
1:55.0 | But while then I found a sense of peace and belonging in Mexico, |
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