Every year, over 100,000 Mexicans living in the USA are deported to Mexico. Many of them have grown up and spent decades in America, working, paying taxes, starting families. Some can’t even speak Spanish. In a matter of days. they find themselves torn away from their children and loved ones and escorted across the border. Unable to return home and unable to appeal their deportation.
The border town of Tijuana has become an airlock between two worlds, where the broken lives of migrants end up. For many of these deportees, the only work available is in relocated American call centres. They spend their days answering calls from American consumers, pretending to be working from America, and their evenings looking at the lights from across the border, trying to maintain some some of contact with their families left behind.
Rocio, Richard and Sergio are just three of those affected. We follow them for nearly a year as they struggle to make sense of the situation they are now in and rebuild their lives.
This documentary was produced by Brother Films and directed by Alex Gohari & Léo Mattei. It was first released in 2020.
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Pure garbage what they have deported….bandits….criminals….pure bad guys…they were not doing any good to the USA….what did they contribute to the USA as a country?….bandits
Pure garbage what they have deported….bandits….criminals….pure bad guys…they were not doing any good to the USA….what did they contribute to the USA as a country?….bandits
Pure garbage what they have deported….bandits….criminals….pure bad guys…they were not doing any good to the USA….what did they contribute to the USA as a country?….bandits
I live in the USA but to be honest I hate this country we build it and we get treated like shit 💩 one day we will witness the downfalls of American we make this nation great and still don’t want us without us USA is nothing and every nation knows this beside the USA 🇺🇸
Tampoco mamen pues depende donde vives en Tijuana porque si hay zonas bien culeras but not everywhere is they way its painted there. But you gotta have the usual prejudice image of Mexico for fun.
They have better customer service in Mexico than they do in America. Respects to these guys that got deported and got a second chance. They deport American military guys that served for this country but they bring Muslims Armenians Russians and arab criminals that come to abuse the system and get everything for free and don't do anything for America. Thanks worthless American government
People who got deported working and asking for socials is crazy.
As a French-Mexican, I don't like is that those deportees show living in Mexico as a disgrace, of course is not! If you have college education in Mexico, odds are way better (just figure out why medical and engineering staff in Tijuana, Mexico, live with a high standard of living, many times exceeding the US one).
If you are a deportee, it's never too late, get your mexican papers in order, start working, find a way into completing your education, get into college if possible, after that, your english and new abilities will take you into another way, America is not everything at all.
It is simply astonishing to me that the illegals don't have a concept of legal migration. If you cross the border into ANY country without the authority to do so, it is an illegal, disrespectful act and you are subject to deportation, it's really pretty simple. And if you bring your kids into the mix and they are caught and deported and don't know their home country anymore, well, it's their parents who are at fault. Do the paper work, wait your turn, and enter legally, that will solve the problem and demonstrate proper respect for the country you are asking to be a part of. AND LEARN THE LANGUAGE!
La señora quejandose de dondevive pues que se valla a rentar a playas de tj,pero pues vienen sin educacion el ingles apenas lo habla y el español lo habla horrible y sin un peny y quieren vivir de lujo no pues no que se regrese a su rancho.
Unfortunately, unless you’re an American citizen, you’re not legally an American. Doesn’t matter if you’ve been in the US one year or 50 years. And if you’re being deported because you committed a crime, you don’t have have the same rights.
Sympathy for people who committed crimes in America LOL
A tip for all my bros and sis deported to Mexico looking for a job: there are more than 600 maquiladoras and warehouses in Tijuana alone and most of them are looking for bilingual people for executive, supervising and management job positions so if you have any experience in the manufacturing industry or warehousing I strongly suggest you to give it a try. If you don't have any experience you can get a home office job in a call center just like my tocayo Richard did, those are the good ones because you work at your own pace in your own place and the people you talk to are nice because they're expecting to hear good news from you because these home office jobs are usually from credit and loan companies. Having said that, avoid at all cost call center cubicle jobs, those ones are dog sh*t jobs. You work under insane amounts of pressure and are expected to meet unrealistic standards, the employers treat you like sh*t and the people you talk to are disrespectful and half of the time they end up yelling at you and if they hear the slightest Latino accent be ready to be blasted with the most humiliating racial insults you can think of… So yeah, avoid the "bilingual assistant" cubicle jobs. Also, don't be afraid to socialize with the people around you. Mexican people are incredibly supportive and welcoming, they open the doors of their homes for everyone and before you realize they'll be treating you as a member of their family.
My two cents…
Working construction in California since 1988 ( and across America) I've witnessed multi million dollar business owners put immigrants to work on prevailing wage jobs and pay them 20 bucks an hour ( PREVAILING WAGE for my trade is 84 bucks an hour)
This is one way the rich keep getting richer and American jobs are being taken…not only in California but in North Dakota too …snd everywhere in-between.
I spoke up and it cost me my job in Southern California…
This is just life this is what goes on since the 1900
Next time I call a center call I'm gonna be like; hey homes !!! Hey foo don't fool me dog .
Why would you want to go back to United States Mexico is a lot better place to live at
Thats sucks
How the military didn't found out he's illegal before recruit him
If you are born in the United States of America, you are American. Si naciste en los Estados Unidos Mexicanos, eres mexicano. How can someone who was born and raised in the United States of America be deported?
These people cling to belonging to a place where they are ultimately not wanted, even when they were expelled they continue to be exploited. When they decided to emigrate in search of other opportunities, they knew the risks and still made the decision. Unfortunately, this affected young children who emigrated with their families. They feel disconnected because they did not cultivate their roots or their connection with their past and their origin. Even though Their children were born in the US, that does not mean that they are valued or respected, on the contrary, they are discriminated against and seen as second or third class citizens due to their origin. Those areas of Tijuana are not representative of Mexico, these mexicans have an attitude that will not allow them to adapt and overcome their own reality. Wanting to cause pity is a sign of lack of dignity. I hope they shake off this idea that they are American citizens and accept their reality.