Part 4 - “Imperfect Paradise” Presents: Finding Home con DACA
Imperfect Paradise
LAist Studios
4.5 • 535 Ratings
🗓️ 11 May 2023
⏱️ 19 minutes
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Summary
Brian returns to Los Angeles. But his ideas of "home" have changed.
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| 0:33.4 | So we just wrapped up this big three-part series about living in the United States with DACA and leaving the country through this process called Advance Pearl. |
| 0:43.0 | I was finally able to visit my birth country of Mexico after 30 years of not being there. |
| 0:49.0 | If you want to listen to that story, go check out parts one, two, and three, a little lower on our podcast feed. |
| 0:56.0 | Telling this story was kind of an emotional roller coaster for me. |
| 1:00.0 | And honestly, it was one of those things where, right when you're wrapping up, you start |
| 1:04.4 | coming across so much you want to include. |
| 1:07.9 | So that's what we have for you today. |
| 1:10.5 | A couple of weeks ago ago I came across this article |
| 1:12.9 | written by Caroline Tracy in The New Yorker called Fighting for the Right to Come and Go. It's essentially |
| 1:19.3 | about a group of return migrants in Mexico City figuring out themselves what it is like to live |
| 1:24.8 | in Mexico after calling the U.S. home for such a long time. |
| 1:29.5 | She interviewed members of this nonprofit organization called Bocha House. |
| 1:34.7 | Pocha means you're kind of American, you're kind of Mexican, you're somewhere in the |
| 1:39.7 | middle, and I totally get that. This could have been me. When I was wondering what to do after I graduated school in 2012, |
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