Not At Home in Mexico
Tuesday, June 16 2009
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NOT AT HOME IN MEXICO
The bridge between El Paso and Ciudad Juarez, where Albert was dropped off by authorities
Up until a few months ago, Albert Becerril thought of Warrenville, Ill. as his hometown. It's where he grew up, where he went to school, where his friends are. And it's where he was on the day when Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers came to arrest him, and send him to Mexico. Albert is one of these kids who was carried across the border as a baby. U.S. authorities say Mexico is where Albert belongs, even though he doesn't know the country, and he doesn't really know the language. In fact, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, or ICE, has stepped up deportations. Last year, 350,000 people were deported. That's double what it was in recent years.
Albert talks with Dick Gordon from Guadalajara, Mexico where he is staying with an aunt that he never met until he showed up at her door.
- We received assistance in our recording from the Digital Journalism Center in Guadalajara
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WRONG NUMBER
Jessica and Chris Boone
Jessica and Chris Boone were excited to move from Cincinnati to Boston where Chris was to start grad school. The two got their apartment all set up and chose a phone number for their landline. They chose a number they thought would be easy to remember - and started getting calls right away, before they'd even given the number out. As soon as Jessica and Chris said "hello," callers launched into troubling stories and asked for prayers. Turns out, Chris and Jessica inherited a prayer hotline. They took those calls and prayer requests for a year and a half. Chris and Jessica talk to Dick about some of the callers on the other end of the line and why they decided not to change their number.
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