My American dream is in Mexico: Jackie

At the beginning of March this year, President Donald Trump’s return to office has gained nearly 20,000 deporters from Mexico, 80% of them are Mexican citizens. President Claudia Shinebam shared statistics in March, noted 15,611 of the exile are Mexican citizens.

Despite the decline in the deportation numbers in Washington, the mass removal to Mexico is not new. Hundreds of thousands of people of Mexican descent – many of them are American citizens – they find almost a century until the 1930s were sent back to Mexican Forcibly evacuated from the United States during the great recession.

In this version My American dream is in MexicoWe share the story of Jackie and the painful journey that he endured behind his wires before returning to the country where his parents once left.

‘Learning English became a promise to me’

Jackie first came to the United States at the age of five and lived with his family in California before returning to Quadalajara. At the age of 17, he decided to reunite with the loved ones and create the future, and again crossed the border without papers.

Jackie joined ESL classes at his local high school, with little English but a lot of determination. Soon, she went to Nevada and got married and became pregnant with her first baby. But pregnancy brought unexpected challenges. He gave birth in six months and struggled to understand the doctors in Nicu, relying on the only Spanish translator in the hospital, and was always unavailable.

“I remember what I thought. My child’s life depends on my laziness or how I don’t speak English?” She says. “I decided to learn.”

Jackie kept that promise. She learned English, built a life and eventually got a job Fog phasesA maternal health institute that provides essential essentials of childbirth. “I like my work,” he says. “I look at me in many girls – nervous, not sure. I wonder how things are going to change.”

‘I have learned mine is my forever’

Jackie watered to his first big career in a nursing home from a nursing home, from the lease agent to an apartment complex. This change was not because she had experienced her, but because she convinced the owners to get an opportunity. She told them that she was a quick learner; They only have to teach her once.

The memory of the experience of premature birth and struggling with doctors, learning continued to stay with her as a constant motivation.

He says, “I felt that I was carrying anything that I learned and I was carrying with me. The what I could learn is mine forever.”

Constantly growing up, Jackie returned to a local real estate, as he says, “lazy”. It worked in favor of her.

He offered to take the difficult tasks that he did not want to do, and if he taught her skills. It was in the early 2000s that computers were not so common in every household, so learning to write statements on the computer felt as an important step. Real estate was first hesitant, but Jackie created his case: Once he had passed the job, he could sit and make less.

By 2004, when the real estate was out, Jackie saw another opening and created her pitch. He asked the apartment owners to give a shot in managing the property and argued that he was already aware of the sellers and had the ability to do the job. They agreed to give her a month. That month turned out to eight years.

But in almost a decade, everything has unraveled. The apartment changed the ownership, and the new landlords discovered that Jackie was not documented. They released her.

The loss of her work came as Jackie made a painful decision to leave her wrong husband. But her freedom came at a devastating cost: she refused to allow her two sons to take her with her.

Determined to float, Jackie found a job on another apartment complex, although the pay was less than half of what she earned. To meet the results, he began to sell tennis shoes in swapping meetings and outdoor markets, and she put on a life as much as possible.

‘I’m not me’

At this time, Jackie started dating with a man from Las Vegas, who worked in Hawaii. He often visited, at his request, leased in an apartment there. What she did not know was that she was involved in drug trafficking. After a delivery of the apartment, Jackie was arrested. Her name was enough to send her to jail for lease.

He was sentenced to 16 months in prison for trying to keep drugs, but her legal issues began. Following the advice of his lawyer, he pleaded guilty to the immigrant lawyer seeking asylum on his behalf.

The time could not have been bad: just a little before the test, Jackie had a miscarriage. He came to the Federal Prevention Center in postponement after childbirth.

“I am not myself. When I got there, I felt like a tour of prison,” he says. “Other prisoners I thought I had done time before because I was very quiet, but I was depressed.”

The asylum process was pulled. Instead of 16 months, Jackie spent almost three years behind the wires. At the time, he saw the sexual abuse of his cellmate by a corrected officer, which left an experience with PTSD and insomnia.

Two years after the Hawaii Prevention Center, Jackie was transferred to California Prison to wait for the decision of his case. But under President Donald Trump’s immigration policies, asylum seekers had to wait outside the United States

Jackie’s petition was denied. In December 2019, he was deported to Mexico.

‘I don’t need to be afraid of back home’

When he finally deported to Mexico, he was carrying more fear than confidence and believed that returning to the country where his parents had left.

But when she returned, the fear began to fade.

“I was probably very young,” he says. “I don’t realize how beautiful my country and culture are. I don’t have to be afraid to return home.”

A few months after his arrival to Guadalajara, Jackie found the job in a quarter center. Most importantly, he reunited with his children for more than three years.

It was during this time that Jackie reunited with Liste, and he met a friend in the days when he was a property manager in Nevada many years ago. In Mexico, Jackie proposed to bring himself to help Lisett to help his growing online store. Jackie was already doing similar work for the staphop via a call center, and he found the opportunity to use his skills in a new way.

Five years later, Lisett agreed, Jackie expanded his expertise on freight management, customer service and e-commerce activities.

Today, Jackie’s sons are young men in the early twenties. They often meet her in Quadalajara, they traveled all over Mexico together, re -found the country that feared to return the beaches.

Jackie is now focusing on developing his creative side, especially in love with his photo. She wants to capture Mexico’s rich, vibrant essence – warmth, color, and the life she redeemed.

“Mexico is not something to be afraid,” he says. “This is something to be proud.”

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