Kind Mexican Deportee Gets a Huge Gift

Kind Mexican Deportee Gets a Huge Gift When people talk about deportation, they almost never show what happens next. So I went to see it for myself. I ended up in a deportee slum near Tijuana, where hundreds of people are trying to survive after being sent back from the U.S. Homes are thrown together from cardboard, scrap metal and plastic. Out here, life is day to day. A lot of the people I met crossed alone. Hiking through mountains. Hiding from cartels and kidnappers. Pushing their bodies to the limit just to make it. Some of them worked in the U.S. for years. Then one day, ICE showed up at their job, asked for papers and deported them. This guy was deported to Tijuana and forced to wear a wristband. He told me that if he didn’t wear it, they wouldn’t give him food. Not even water. He was separated from his kids, who are American citizens, while he was sent back alone. Now he’s living in a cardboard room with no real walls, no legal way to work, and no clear way out. Illegal immigration is obviously a problem. Borders matter. Laws matter. Uncontrolled systems create real issues for countries and communities. But standing here made me realise that there is more to this issue than we are told when it comes to the human cost and suffering. What are your thoughts?