Return to Mexico: Part 2
Imperfect Paradise
LAist Studios
4.5 • 535 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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| 0:33.7 | This is Imperfect Paradise, the show about hidden worlds and messy realities. |
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| 0:42.8 | Last episode, we learned about how Daniel Samora built his life in the U.S., graduating from high school and college, building a life with his boyfriend Eric, and how it all fell apart. |
| 0:53.2 | When on his way to the beach, he was detained |
| 0:56.0 | near the border and deported. |
| 0:58.0 | I wanted to turn around because I felt like I didn't belong in Mexico. |
| 1:03.0 | If home is where your heart is, my heart was in Texas and I was heart hardest. This episode on Return to Mexico, part two, |
| 1:14.7 | a whole year of transition and limbo. When I finally saw him pull up, I didn't know whether to kiss him or not. |
| 1:23.5 | It wasn't necessarily a happy occasion. I knew he'd be staying there and I'd be going back. |
| 1:29.3 | What it's like to be back in a country that you left over a decade ago |
| 1:33.2 | and that no longer feels like home. |
| 1:37.6 | Lead reporter Lorina Rios takes it from here. |
| 1:43.4 | After Daniel was deported to Mexico in 2011, his family scrambled to figure out logistics. |
| 1:51.7 | His sister suggested that he stayed with her in the border town of Ciudad Juarez. When Daniel |
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