tv Reporter Deutsche Welle June 30, 2019 5:15am-5:31am CEST
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i was issued when i was here i slept with 6 people in a room. it was hard. i even got white hair. learning the german language helped me a lot this gives me a great opportunity to interact with society you want to know their story. and for a little information for margaret. 2000 kilometers live between them the escobar family separated by trumps immigration orders. 2 years ago jose escobar was deported from the u.s. to el salvador where he was born he was forcibly fuse wife rose and their 2
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children in houston texas they can only visit her say once a year a family torn apart. all rose has left her photo album memories of happier days in a bygone past. ever since her husband was deported rose has had to singlehandedly fend for the family but she won't give up. is the 1st flower any guy has ever given me and jose is my 1st and only boyfriend so when i started this book i said you know i have it see how far you'll go and it's still going. he added to me and i told along. go ahead and put tape on it so
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can last mate as you can see it still is still holding on. the couple has been married for 13 years jose's deportation 2 years ago was completely unexpected. rose still remembers that call as if it were yesterday are you sitting down like young hero i need you. to calm down your thoughts that are being me are going to be fine and i said ok jose you're scaring me are the my hero they deported me last night those words changed my life for. rose is a us citizen but marrying jose wasn't enough for him to attain citizenship. walter is 8 years old it's 7 30 in the morning and he's excited it's the last day of school before summer vacation. the
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teacher kamila king has the same ritual each morning she greets each student personally. so i'm going to do it jay let me in on yellow. tomorrow they're off to all salvador to see his dad. janice. left hand. they haven't seen each other for a whole year i mean prayers. you know that the state by the way because there may be a story tomorrow and i hope it doesn't that the body soul whatever whatever technology you have. i guess the home room teacher kamila king has known walter since kindergarten ever since his father was deported she says the boy has changed them that's something that's really hard for me as an adult to watch is to be encouraged by the fact that he does not have his father written every single day.
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and i know that that's not something i can change. rose escobar is on her way to the lawyer she wants to bring the case before court so that her husband can come home. like many others jose came to the country as an undocumented mind while previous administrations deferred deporting these childhood arrivals trump suddenly rescinded the decision jose was one of the 1st victims of the new immigration policy. tell rose. how are you so nice to see you please come in. as you can see the heap of files on your husband is growing what would you like to talk about today is there any news. it's all still pending we've requested that the decision to deport him is reversed it's taking longer than we had expected as
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you know the trump administration demands additional security checks that's slowing everything down and the authorities are overwhelmed with an effect that if you didn't have a criminal record he was working he was paying taxes he had a family in the united states so i was not a bird the government was very strict at the beginning now this administration oh everybody's a priority until they realize they don't have beds for that many people and they could not arrest as many people so they're exercising it but but not equally so some will get a break so some are arrested some are not and what has created a lot more confusion for everybody. lawyers such as riot can silence speak of arbitrary treatment and accuse the authorities of inhumane conditions at their detention facilities. on the one i can see especially when you find out that statistics show that this year already 27
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people have died in custody when that was not the number of 4 or 5 presidents in all their presidency so clearly there's a problem. to do you know. family for a brief moment everyone can be together they see. him over there. the mother and her children at the table the father patched in live on the screen all part of their daily struggle do you think coming graduation pictures. yeah. that's all i can tell what they're thinking about already but did you see it coming a perfect attendance. ok start. karma got perfect attendance and she also she passed she mastered all her. her her grade her number and also you hans in the start to me man.
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what's one plus more. then my fingers what's one that's worn. off to el salvador it's their favorite time of the year ahead of them life 4 weeks of being an intact family. democratic texas congressman al green is waiting for them at the gate he's been fighting for has returned since the beginning he's worried about his safety. there are gangs there and they extort and they also don't take kindly to people who have close relationships with persons who are from america the united states who may be trying to have some way infringe upon what they see as an asset.
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free. throws as is lucky as a hospital receptionist she's allowed to take her entire use by keisha not once in the u.s. that's really the case. shortly before reuniting with her husband she's a wash with emotions. honestly i got mixed emotions right now i'm stress. i'm nervous but i'm so excited like i i want to cry but i'm not going to cry but if i do right it's going to be happy tears because i just can't wait to. see and to see the kids just like him. the san salvador airport finally the moment has arrived. the family mates in
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a secured area the u.s. embassy and the congressman both have security concerns no cameras allowed. it's also you know finally back up the family so. we're not. we're going to last summer saw her. he was more she's going so big you smart she talks no i think she was she wasn't you know she and was are just getting. doing his homework by himself now it's it's steps that you know go that your children's do that you want to be there for for them i mean he obviously wants to be there but can't because of the circumstances were right that it was time to say you could buy to al grange he's continuing on to the u.s. embassy where he's sure to to talk about jose escobar case. but. what i can achieve information about his situation that i can relate to the
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people back in my country as well as my fellow congress people they need to know what's happening here and hopefully with the legislation that we filed we have a bill that will reunite all families similar to this one. window or when that would ever happen is still unclear for now the escobar family is more concerned with the rioting in a country that feels foreign to them although they have their roots here. el salvador is one of the poorest countries in latin america with one of the world's highest murder rites. at home with jose's parents. this is where he stays to animals from the capital san salvador moments like these are especially precious to the escobar family ringback way way way way way i know some of you have
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a plus to let me see so you. know . ok so you're going to part of it is a bit. the worst day. when i was a man for. people now. who say considers himself an american and here august do to a few days ago he was robbed right on the front doorstep armed gangs live in this neighborhood i was going crazy i could've worked because i was stressing i lost so much hair and then dealing with the kids and then finding out how i'm going to pay the bills and then this was like the number one thing that i just asked them please if you don't want me to worry too much to stay inside the house i don't walk because i want the one i want to avoid or that will ever happen or just rather stay
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in the house all the time if i've got to have a story of problems like a block away if. to avoid drawing attention the family stays within this small neighborhood they want to keep that in the time they have together as carefree as possible this morning i woke up and i and i already said one day is already gone. and i'm trying my best not to think about it or either like you know down on the day another day or trying to just live on the moment right now and just absorb whatever we can right now as a family of. the end of the day. does that matter what time. does or wait. for weeks in which they try to leave their worries behind it could be a long time before they can be together again. please
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