Imperfect Paradise: Return to Mexico: Part 2

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🗓️ 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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0:29.7	This is Imperfect Paradise, the show about Hidden Worlds and Messy Realities.
0:37.0	I'm Antonia Sirejido.
0:41.0	Last episode, we learned about how D'Anen Samora built his life in the US,
0:45.1	graduating from high school and college building a life with his boyfriend Eric
0:49.2	and how it all fell apart when on his way to the beach he was detained near the border and
0:55.6	deported. I wanted to turn around because I felt like I didn't belong in
1:00.9	Mexico. If home is where your heart is. My heart was in Texas and I was
1:08.8	hardest. This episode on Return to Mexico, Part two. A whole year of transition and limbo.
1:16.0	When I finally saw him pull up, I didn't know whether to kiss him or not.
1:21.0	It wasn't necessarily a happy occasion. I knew he'd be
1:25.4	staying there and I'd be going back. What it's like to be back in a country that
1:29.6	you left over a decade ago and that no longer feels like home.
1:36.0	Lead reporter Lorina Rios takes it from here.
1:42.0	After Daniel was deported to Mexico in 2011, his family scrambled to figure out logistics.
1:49.4	His sister suggested that he stay with her in the border town of Suuad Juarez.
1:56.5	When Daniel arrived at the bus station to meet her, it was a burning hot day in August. The moment I stepped off the bus and wanted to turn around
2:06.8	because I felt like I didn't belong in Mexico. He had not eaten or slept properly for the last three days.
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