Shrimp Who Falls Asleep

Latino USA

My Cultura, Futuro and iHeartPodcasts

Society & Culture

4.9 • 3.7K Ratings

🗓️ 4 June 2021

⏱️ 48 minutes

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Summary

Writer Yesica Balderrama immigrated from Morelos, Mexico to New York City with her family over two decades ago. Since then, they’ve been living in Queens as undocumented immigrants. While Yesica eventually was able to become a DACA-recipient, her mother and uncle are still undocumented. She has since moved out, gone to college and become a writer. But as she’s drifted away and created her own independent life, Yesica has started to become increasingly worried about how little her family has changed. In this intimate story, Yesica decides to confront her relatives with tough questions about their lack of progress, and how they try to stay afloat in this country.

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1:26.0	My family and I moved from Mexico to the borough of Queens in New York City, over 20 years
1:31.8	ago.
1:33.6	The vein of Queens is a seven train, which runs overhead on Ruzvelt Avenue 24-7.
1:38.6	And you can hear it from inside my family's house.
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