Which Way Home?

Tijuana                                                                            Yesenia Trujillo

What happens to undocumented Mexican immigrants we deport? Many end up in Tijuana. They find themselves stuck there, unable to get work in Mexico because they've been in the U.S. so long they no longer have proof that they belong in the country of their birth. They stay, too, to be closer to their families in the States and in the hope that they can one day rejoin them, legally or not. Although the Mexican government tries to help, offering medical checkups, food, a phone call, and free plane and bus tickets to their hometown, many of those who elect to stay in Tijuana join the ranks of the homeless: http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/special-features/2014/11/141121-tijuana-deportees-immigrants-mexico-border/