Como Vivimos (How We Live) | Migrant Separation
Clip: Season 12 Episode 6 | 59sVideo has Closed Captions
Jessica Romero opens up about being separated from her family during her senior year of high school.
Jessica Romero, a high school student, talks with her guidance counselor, Jessica Muñoz, about spending her senior year away from her family. She is staying in California while her parents must remain in Mexico due to the state's migrant laws that mandate they do not live in the area for at least 3 months.
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Como Vivimos (How We Live) | Migrant Separation
Clip: Season 12 Episode 6 | 59sVideo has Closed Captions
Jessica Romero, a high school student, talks with her guidance counselor, Jessica Muñoz, about spending her senior year away from her family. She is staying in California while her parents must remain in Mexico due to the state's migrant laws that mandate they do not live in the area for at least 3 months.
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Learn Moreabout PBS online sponsorshipJESSICA ROMERO: I will be coming back in January, so I could graduate from high school.
It's my last year.
My family's gonna stay back in Mexico until March because they can't be living here for three months while the camps are closed.
JESSICA MUÑOZ: Jessica Romero?
This is the first year she comes this early, so this is hard for her.
This is gonna be hard for you.
- Yeah.
- Yeah.
She always comes back in March.
- March.
- Aw... You'll be okay.
We will take care of you.
You'll be fine, okay?
Last year, I had a student who stayed from one relative to one friend to... so they're considered homeless.
So they're, so they're considered homeless.
I know it sounds like it's a bad thing, but it's not.
You get services for that.
So, um, so, I need to start asking students, especially the migrant, 'cause the camps are technically closed, so I have to start asking students, "Where are you living now?
Who are you living with?"
Um, just to see if we need to classify them as homeless.
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