Using two decades of archival footage, a Mexican American reporter, himself an immigrant to Mexico, reflects on his 30 y | dG1fZnVRU3ZzODczTXc
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00:00The first time I saw an unauthorized traveler was in the early 1970s, out in the desert.
00:11A border patrol official arrested a man under the shade of a palo verde tree.
00:17My father told me the man was being arrested because he was poor.
00:31I come from the north, from a place that was once Mexico.
00:38They come from the south, from the periphery, with hopes and dreams and fantasies.
01:09Sometimes it feels like we share the same dream, to improve our lives in another land.
01:24Each of us experiences our own voyage, and in the course of our passage, a new person emerges.
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