Born in the US, Mexico is Now Home for Los Otros Dreamers Albor Ruiz - Daily News
go to original September 4, 2013

A new project out of Mexico City aims to tell the stories of “Los Otros Dreamers,” young immigrants who grew up in the US without papers but were either deported or decided that they’d take their chances in Mexico. The project, a book in progress, is the work of Mexico City-based, American academic Jill Anderson and Mexican photographer Nin Solis. They are travelling around Mexico to meet young people who in recent years have come back to Mexico and are now trying to build lives for themselves. (losotrosdreamers.org)

Everybody knows who DREAMers are, and how much they have contributed to move the immigration debate forward with their courageous actions. Yet there is another group of young people who also grew up undocumented in the U.S. that almost no one in this country has heard about.

They call themselves Los Otros Dreamers (The Other Dreamers), and they are a growing network of youth who were deported or decided to return to Mexico — mostly after encountering obstacles in the U.S. — to pursue their education. Ironically, many might have been eligible for deferred action.

According to the Pew Hispanic Center, more than 1.4 million Mexicans — 400,000 of them young by some estimates — returned to the country of their birth from 2005 to 2010.

... They see themselves as a forgotten group, although, like their U.S. counterparts, they have shown remarkable resourcefulness. While not able to pursue the American Dream, many have achieved their Mexican Dream.

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