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Mexican father self-deports after more than 30 years in the US · THE DAILY BRIEF

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  Speaker 1: Welcome back everyone. As the Trump administration has ramped up
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  Speaker 1: immigration enforcement, it is also called on those in the
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  Speaker 1: country without legal status to self deport to their home countries.
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  Speaker 1: There are some four point seven million households with a
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  Speaker 1: mix of US citizens and non citizens, and now some
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  Speaker 1: are making the difficult decision to break up their families
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  Speaker 1: in order to avoid detention and deportation. Matt river Is,
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  Speaker 1: along with our ABC owned station WTVD in Raleigh, North Carolina,
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  Speaker 1: followed one such family making that difficult choice.
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  Speaker 2: At the Rivera household in suburban Raleigh.
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  Speaker 3: There you go.
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  Speaker 2: It may look like a typical weekend. Fidel and Jennifer
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  Speaker 2: Rivera taking on daughter Isabella at card games put this
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  Speaker 2: sig down right. Cheering on their older daughter McKenzie at
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  Speaker 2: the soccer field. But for this family, these everyday moments
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  Speaker 2: are precious and fleeting.
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  Speaker 4: I'm going to miss my wife and I'm going to
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  Speaker 4: miss my kids.
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  Speaker 2: Fidel and Jennifer just celebrated their seventeen wedding anniversary, but
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  Speaker 2: Fidel is undocumented. Coming to the US from Mexico in
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  Speaker 2: nineteen ninety five.
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  Speaker 4: There was no jobs, and I decide to coming over
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  Speaker 4: here to look for a better fater.
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  Speaker 5: The only thing that he's ever done wrong was come
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  Speaker 5: here without documentation, without.
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  Speaker 2: Any legal status. He risks being detained and deported. And
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  Speaker 2: together they have now made the agonizing decision for Fidel
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  Speaker 2: to self deport alone, to give.
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  Speaker 4: The piece to my wife and to my kids. I
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  Speaker 4: don't want they see me and they and handcuffs with
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  Speaker 4: chains and the jail.
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  Speaker 6: This is not an unfounded fear.
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  Speaker 5: We started seeing people that were being picked up for
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  Speaker 5: dumb things like not criminals. I did not want my
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  Speaker 5: husband wrapped up in that.
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  Speaker 2: The second Trump administration's aggressive immigration enforcement has escalated the
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  Speaker 2: risk of detention. Currently, nearly sixty thousand people are being
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  Speaker 2: held by Ice. Almost half have no criminal record, only
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  Speaker 2: immigration violations.
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  Speaker 6: I'm christin nom part of the government's campaign self Deport Now.
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  Speaker 5: President Trump has a clear message for those that are
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  Speaker 5: in our country illegally.
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  Speaker 6: Leave now. If you don't, we will find you, and
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  Speaker 6: we will deport you. You will never return.
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  Speaker 2: According to DHS, Fidel will be joining some one point
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  Speaker 2: six million people who have already self deported.
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  Speaker 5: This is heartbreaking. I don't want to wake up on
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  Speaker 5: Tuesday without my best friend next to me, But that's
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  Speaker 5: what I'm being forced to do to keep him safe.
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  Speaker 2: Fidel and Jennifer met sal Sedancing, married two years later
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  Speaker 2: and raised a family. She teaches math. He went to
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  Speaker 2: school to be an electrician and worked in construction, but
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  Speaker 2: he had no legal path to citizenship.
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  Speaker 5: Even though he's married to a US citizen, even though
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  Speaker 5: we have two US citizen children, even though he pays taxes,
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  Speaker 5: even though he has a job, even though he is
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  Speaker 5: not a drain on society.
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  Speaker 6: Despite advocating to change the laws for mixed status families.
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  Speaker 6: Their lives have been on hold.
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  Speaker 5: So we couldn't make any plans. We couldn't plan for
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  Speaker 5: our future. We couldn't plan for retirement, we couldn't plan
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  Speaker 5: for our kids future.
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  Speaker 6: And now he has to move on.
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  Speaker 4: Are gonna be again just by myself and start on?
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  Speaker 4: You start a new life over there.
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  Speaker 6: The rest of the family will stay behind.
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  Speaker 5: So you hear people saying, why don't you just get
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  Speaker 5: up and move with your family. I can't leave. This
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  Speaker 5: is my twenty fourth year of teaching. I have to
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  Speaker 5: hit thirty to get my full retirement. We have a
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  Speaker 5: senior in high school. She doesn't want to leave her
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  Speaker 5: senior year.
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  Speaker 6: Are you telling me in six months when I'm out
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  Speaker 6: to have my graduation or something like that, but one
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  Speaker 6: of my parents is not going to be there. It's just.
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  Speaker 2: Perry like.
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  Speaker 5: It just makes me upset. I feel like really sad
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  Speaker 5: currently about it, like thinking about it, but when it
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  Speaker 5: actually happens, that's a little more scary.
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  Speaker 2: So come Monday morning, boxes stand by ready for shipping
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  Speaker 2: bags hauled out to the car. They head to the
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  Speaker 2: Raleigh Airport. We can't go in the line with you
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  Speaker 2: leaving his family behind.
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  Speaker 5: Your eyes are leaky.
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  Speaker 6: Fidel is on his way to what lies ahead. First
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  Speaker 6: a flight to Mexico.
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  Speaker 3: City, Mexicoco triste ste sans here.
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  Speaker 4: Can I?
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  Speaker 2: Then onto Medio on the Yucatan coast, where a friend
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  Speaker 2: meets him. The next day, reality setting.
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  Speaker 4: In Lomas Visas, Acami, Canola, Ninas, Canola, Caela the Plante,
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  Speaker 4: the Ai is Salira, Delante is.
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  Speaker 5: Serro.
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  Speaker 4: Then Masa Famili