May 18, 2015
The Guardian looks at Educational Studies Prof. William Pérez’s research into what happens to young immigrants deported from the US to Mexico
For the children of undocumented Mexican migrants in the United States, life demands secrecy. They learn to navigate between the two cultures while hiding their illegal status – all the while praying for immigration reform. Their Mexican memories – if they remember at all – are replaced by American dreams. After a few years, they often feel, look and sound so American, they can forget that, in the eyes of the law, they are aliens.