Imperfect Paradise: Return to Mexico: Part 2

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LAist Studios

True Crime

4.2 • 887 Ratings

🗓️ 26 June 2024

⏱️ 39 minutes

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Summary

Daniel Zamora waits for the decision on his deportation appeal and has to figure out how to make a life in Mexico — find work, get an apartment. All the while, Daniel tries to keep up his cross-border relationship. Lorena Ríos reports.

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0:20.0	Alayist and show and tell present an evening with Fran Leibowitz. Author, journalist, and social observer will take the stage Wednesday, September 25th at the
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0:44.0	This is imperfect paradise, the show about hidden worlds
0:47.1	and messy realities.
0:49.0	I'm Antonia Céjido.
0:53.0	Last episode, we learned about how D'Anien Samore built his life in the U.S.
0:57.0	graduating from high school and college, building a life with his boyfriend Eric,
1:01.0	and how it all fell apart, when on his way to the beach he
1:05.6	was detained near the border and deported. I wanted to turn around because I felt
1:11.2	like I didn't belong in Mexico.
1:14.0	If home is where your heart is.
1:17.0	My heart was in Texas and I was heartless.
1:21.0	This episode on Return to Mexico, part two.
1:25.0	A whole year of transition and limbo.
1:28.0	When I finally saw him pull up,
1:31.0	I didn't know whether to kiss him or not.
1:33.4	It wasn't necessarily a happy occasion.
1:36.6	I knew he'd be staying there and I'd be going back.
1:39.2	What it's like to be back in a country that you left over a decade ago and that no longer
1:44.5	feels like home. Lead reporter Lorina Rios takes it from here.
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