Рет қаралды 1,872
(3 Jan 2024)
RESTRICTION SUMMARY:
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Chicago - 26 December 2023
1. Wide of Noelia Sanchez in the kitchen of her home
2. SOUNDBITE (English) Noelia Sanchez, descendant of immigrants:
"I was born in Missouri, Cooter, Missouri. And my mom and my dad where, well my dad was a farm worker."
3. Mid of Sanchez making tamales
4. SOUNDBITE (English) Noelia Sanchez, descendent of immigrants:
"And there was a time that I guess immigration was just coming to your house and taking you away because they took my mom away and I was the youngest, so I had to leave with her."
5. Mid of Sanchez making tamales with her mother Aurora Sanchez
6. SOUNDBITE (English) Noelia Sanchez, descendant of immigrants:
"I know when I told my son about that years ago that we had gotten deported and all that, and he looked it up and it did come out in the in the archives of the wetbacks, the era of the wetbacks."
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Holtville, California - 11 August 1951
7. STILL of Mexican migrant workers being deported
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Calexico, California - 11 August 1951
8. STILL of Mexican nationals being apprehended at the border
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Chicago - 26 December 2023
9. SOUNDBITE (English) Noelia Sanchez, descendant of immigrants:
"It wasn't okay. But, I was maybe too little to really understand, you know, what was going on. You know, I just knew that I was taken away with my mom. And I had no reason, I had no knowledge why that, you know, we were separated."
10. Close-up of Noelia Sanchez
11. Mid of Noelia Sanchez's mom, Aurora, making tamales
12. Mid of Joaquin Sanchez, Noelia's son watching mom and grandmother make tamales
13. SOUNDBITE (English) Joaquin Sanchez, descendant of immigrants:
"I'd describe my family's immigration history as the exercise of their freedom of movement."
14. Close-up of Aurora folding a tamal
15. SOUNDBITE (English) Joaquin Sanchez, descendant of immigrants:
"So it was really important for me to understand how all of the laws and and the state, and government's work so that I can contribute and protect myself, protect my family."
16. Mid of Noelia Sanchez's mom, Aurora, making tamales
17. SOUNDBITE (English) Joaquin Sanchez, descendant of immigrants:
"That's the reality I grew up with in Chicago, very aware of our relationship to the police and to the U.S. government, which is one of the many reasons that led me to law school."
18. Mid of Noelia Sanchez with mom Aurora making tamales
19. SOUNDBITE (English) Joaquin Sanchez, descendent of immigrants:
"The prioritization of family and survival and breaking out of poverty. I think that's common with my family and with immigrants today."
20. Close-up of Noelia Sanchez's mom, Aurora
21. SOUNDBITE (English) Noelia Sanchez, descendant of immigrants:
"I'm just so proud of my mom. I'm so proud because she showed us how to be strong. My mother is a strong person."
22. Wide of Noelia Sanchez's mom, Aurora, making tamales
STORYLINE:
Noelia Sanchez was born in the rolling farmlands of southwest Missouri where her Mexican parents worked as seasonal farmworkers in the 1950s.
When she was 1, Noelia and her mother Aurora, who unlike male guest workers had no work documents, were rounded up with dozens of other immigrants in the Chicago area.
The U.S.-born child and her mother were forced to go to Mexico along with hundreds of thousands of other people.
Their deportations were part of a U.S. government effort that was known in official papers and the media as “Operation Wetback."
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