ANT 3540 Lecture Notes - Lecture 14: Social Security Number
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Husband becomes us citizen, wife tries to become us citizen but is denied, banned from us for. 99 years, separated from her family in mexico. Jessica"s mother marlo moves to us legally, but can"t get her daughter over. Jessica has a son in el salvador, is able to move to the us and doesn"t want to be her mom, brings her son over illegally, court date could be as far off as 2020. He comes over illegally when he is 11, is deported at 16 after running a red light. Doesn"t have the cultural knowledge of a native mexican, feels ostracized, comes back to us, is deported again after being racially profiled at a department store and detained. He is in us for most of his adult life, but doesn"t have proper papers. Is deported to tijuana, but doesn"t know a lot of spanish.