Transcript
John Phillip Santos
Writer/Producer
Just one small note of something that came out in the piece that didn't get remarked on that has to do with the experience of those people who come across the border has been changing. The father in the piece referred to the fact that they may go back and that the children might choose to stay. But in terms of his own thinking, we seem to hear that he still thinks about returning to Mexico and we've seen it happen in New York City in the last 10 years. Large communities of Mexicans arriving, sending back lots of funds to Mexico and many of them returning. The ways in which the immigrants experience out of Mexico has been changing. My ancestors came across at the time of the revolution. They knew they wanted to get out of Mexico at a particularly difficult time and settled in Texas, but some of that is changing as well in terms of citizenship of the Americas. We may see very different experiences of the immigrant life emerging that are much more fluid, much more bicameral in the sense of going back and forth between homelands and the United States.
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