Deported Youth Feel Forgotten In Mexico

*Heart breaking story about “Los Otros DREAMers”; deported youth living in Mexico, fighting for a voice in the U.W. immigration deate. VL

By Mónica Ortiz Uribe, Fronteras

MEXICO CITY — There’s been a lot of debate lately about President Barack Obama’s executive action that will grant legal status to some undocumented immigrants. It builds upon an earlier program that aided young immigrants brought here illegally as children.

But some young people were deported before they could take advantage of that program. Now those deportees are speaking out.

Nancy Landa has spent the last five years feeling frustrated and misunderstood. In 2009 she found herself alone at the border in Tijuana carrying just her purse and a $20 bill.

“It was like in the middle of the night…stranded in Tijuana,” Landa said.

Landa had been picked up by immigration authorities in Los Angeles, detained for eight hours, and deported that same day.

“You are in shock most of time,” she said. “I cried a lot.”

Landa lived in the United States for 19 years as an undocumented youth. Her parents took her there illegally when she was 9 years old. They made a life in Los Angeles. Landa graduated college with honors and worked for nonprofit organizations until the day of her deportation.\

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