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Teenage Diaries: Juan in El Cenizo, TX, Looking at the Rio Grande

Author: Juan in El Cenizo, TX

Audio Length: 13 min.

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Publishers Summary

It's pretty amazing. Like, looking down there at the other end of the water, you know. And imagine me, you know, I'm Mexican, and I'm just looking at my country right now - and I'm here in the U.S. It's, like, kind of amazing. Like my father once used to say: 'Look, there's Mexico.'
Some of the poorest communities in the United States are the so-called "colonias" along the U.S. border with Mexico. Most of the people who live there are Mexican immigrants. Juan is a 19-year-old who lives in a colonia just outside Laredo, Texas. He and his family - 10 brothers and sisters, plus his mother and father - live in a small trailer home. Though his father is a legal resident of the U.S., Juan and the other members of his family are not. Four years ago they crossed the Rio Grande and entered the country illegally. Juan attended high school here, and received his diploma. Teenage Diaries producer Joe Richman gave Juan a tape recorder to document his life in this poor community. This is Juan's diary as originally heard on National Public Radio®'s All Things Considered®.
Also, listen to Juan's second diary, recorded a year later: Back to Mexico.

Publisher: Radio Diaries