From Here | Leaving Home
Clip: Season 11 Episode 5 | 59sVideo has Closed Captions
Tania Mattos talks about her family and why they had to leave Bolivia for the U.S.
Tania Mattos, an undocumented activist living in Queens, NY, talks about her family, their roots in Bolivia, and the reason why they had to leave the country for the United States. She is like many others who have had no choice but to flee home for a new "home" but no matter the years that pass, they lack a sense of belonging as they search for a path to citizenship.
Major funding for America ReFramed provided by the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, Wyncote Foundation, and the Corporation for Public Broadcasting. Additional funding provided by Open Society Foundations,...
From Here | Leaving Home
Clip: Season 11 Episode 5 | 59sVideo has Closed Captions
Tania Mattos, an undocumented activist living in Queens, NY, talks about her family, their roots in Bolivia, and the reason why they had to leave the country for the United States. She is like many others who have had no choice but to flee home for a new "home" but no matter the years that pass, they lack a sense of belonging as they search for a path to citizenship.
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Learn Moreabout PBS online sponsorshipMy family came to the United States in the late 1980s.
That's my dad in the Army.
In the US, the CIA infiltrated into the Bolivian army, and they were trained by them.
Because of international free trade and experiments done on politically weak countries, which was Bolivia at the time, my father, he was a college graduate, but he had to work three jobs.
It still wasn't enough for us to survive, basically.
We didn't leave because we wanted to leave.
We had to leave Bolivia because of the American policies.
For my own sake, I don't have a place where I feel I belong.
I feel I belong in Jackson Heights, which is the most diverse city in the world.
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