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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