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Imperfect Paradise

Part 3 - “Imperfect Paradise” Presents: Finding Home con DACA

Imperfect Paradise

LAist Studios

Society & Culture

4.5535 Ratings

🗓️ 10 May 2023

⏱️ 18 minutes

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Summary

Brian finally sets foot in Mexico. His audio diary chronicles what it was like to feel at home while feeling like an outsider.

Music from this episode composed by: Floating Points, Geir Sundstøl, Modarchive, Yeahman

 

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0:32.4

Hello, hono Alto.

0:33.6

From LIA Studios and How to LA, this is finding home with Dhaka.

0:41.3

I'm in this little corridor behind all the busy streets.

0:47.3

If you haven't heard parts one and two yet, stop and go do that first.

0:52.3

It's like gardens, playgrounds, there's a little stage type thing.

0:57.0

It's exactly what I wanted to do when it came here.

1:00.0

But here's the Spark Notes.

1:03.0

I got approved for something called advance parole.

1:06.0

It's a process that lets undocumented people like me leave the United States and come back. See a bonito here to see Mexico, my birth country, for the first time since I left with my mom when I was two.

1:22.6

Even with DACA, which lets me legally work and drive,

1:28.3

I've always felt like there's this big question mark over my immigration status.

1:33.3

My American, my Mexican, am I stuck in the middle?

1:38.3

And here's the real tea.

1:41.3

My story is really not unique. There are hundreds of thousands of undocumented folks right here in LA

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