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Latino USA

The Matter Of Castro Tum

Latino USA

My Cultura, Futuro and iHeartPodcasts

News, Society & Culture, Politics, Documentary

4.83.8K Ratings

🗓️ 9 October 2020

⏱️ 42 minutes

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Summary

In 2018, a young Guatemalan man named Reynaldo Castro Tum was ordered deported even though no one knew where he was. Now, more than two years later, his case has sucked another man back into a legal quagmire.

Transcript

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0:00.0

So I was with two uncles in a cousin and we were heading down to Miami for vacation.

0:12.6

This is Roland Sylvain and what he's talking about happened almost 20 years ago.

0:18.8

You know we're having a good time listening to music.

0:21.8

He's feeling good, sailing down the open road, going about 82 miles an hour, which is

0:27.4

more than the speed limit.

0:29.2

And as he's cruising through Virginia, a police car pulls up behind him.

0:33.5

I just hear the signs behind me, so I just pull over.

0:36.8

And when I pulled him, I said, oh man, I'm going to get in some serious trouble because

0:40.3

I don't have my license on me.

0:41.9

And all the guys are like, what are you talking about?

0:43.9

I'm like, I have my license, but I'm suspended.

0:53.5

And in the future, it's Latino USA, I'm Maria Inohosa.

0:57.4

Today, how a little known change in immigration policy could turn Roland's traffic stop into

1:04.4

a life sentence.

1:10.8

Roland Sylvain was born in Haiti, though by the time of his birth in 1978, most of his

1:17.0

family had one foot out of the country.

1:19.8

My grandfather actually was the one that started it.

1:22.6

He had issues in Haiti for political reasons and things like that.

1:25.7

His grandfather's problems started during the brutal dictatorship of President Francois

1:30.8

Duvalier, who's usually known as Papadoc.

1:34.4

Papadoc allowed no political descent, while he ruled the mortality rate of political prisoners

1:39.7

reported late was the worst in the world.

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