Undocumented Migrants, Free Now to Visit Mexico, Face Iffy Future
NY Times
Nov 5th, 2016
"The plan was to return a couple of years later, but instead they remained, undocumented, in New York City. The boxes and bags stayed where they had left them, their contents mostly forgotten: a family’s beacon of hope."
"I don’t know if I’m an American in disguise or a Mexican trying to be American,” Mr. Torres said midway through the visit. “We’re coming home in a sense, but it doesn’t feel like home anymore.”
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This article captures the untold side of the stories of just a few Mexican immigrants. I really like how in the first quote the writer captures the families "beacon of hope" as he also describes how the boxes that once held their most important impressions are still left unopened, as if they never got around to unpacking them, it creates a eminent image in my mind. The quote from Mr. Torres is also very powerful, and exemplifies the way that many Mexicans living in America feel. The article discusses about how Mexicans feel in a sort of limbo, of conforming to standards of Americans but not leaving behind their Mexican culture. It is a powerful article and really shed light on a topic that often stays in the dark.
