Netflix's series, 'Living Undocumented' follows eight households. Here's what you want to find out about Pablo, Roberto and Camilo, of the Dunoyer family.
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The sobering sequence follows 8 undocumented households as they face possible deportation. "Ranging from harrowing to hopeful, their journeys illuminate and humanize the complex U.S. immigration system," reads a Netflix synopsis.
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The Dunoyer family arrived to the U.S. legally 18 years in the past.
According to Teen Vogue, 17-year-old Camilo, 20-year-old Pablo, and their oldsters Roberto and Consuelo left Colombia amid narco-guerilla threats in opposition to their family and calls for of heavy ransom. While they arrived to America on a visa, the family applied for asylum when it expired in 2005.
"In 2008, a judge denied their asylum case," reads a Netflix press unlock, "saying they don't qualify because the case isn't 100% political."
"We never broke the law," Camilo said to Teen Vogue. "We've done everything right. We pay taxes. We've made visits to ICE, done everything the government has asked us to do."
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The Dunoyer family has won some media consideration following Camilo's and Pablo's pleas on Twitter, where they posted movies and extensive threads documenting their battle with immigration. In August of 2018, they launched an respectable statement, titled "Help Save the Dunoyer Family from Deportation," where they detailed their process.
After the Dunoyers' case for political asylum was once denied in 2008, the family sought help from their native consultant Duncan Hunter. "He introduced private legislation on behalf of the family to allow them to stay in the United States. Though these bills would never be passed, as long as they existed and were re-introduced, the Dunoyers were able to continue living and working legally in the United States," the commentary reads.
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"However, new policy from the Trump Administration took away Representative Hunter's ability to continue introducing this legislation," it continues. "By the time the Dunoyer family was notified that proposed legislation could no longer keep them in the United States, it was too late."
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Where is the Dunoyer family from Living Undocumented now?
To make matters worse, and more unhealthy for the family, they are nonetheless receiving the demise threats in Colombia that to begin with caused them to go away. Add to that the fact that Camilo and Pablo, who got here to the country at Eleven months and 3 years of age, respectively, were precluded from applying for DACA standing, even if the United States is the one home they know.
In an interview with Time, executive producer Selena Gomez gives audience more perception into the whereabouts of the Dunoyer family now, and it is not the glad finishing we had wished for. While Pablo was once accepted to San Diego State University (and in step with Teen Vogue, to his dream school of California Polytechnic Institute), he can not attend both.
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Because in August 2019, only some quick months ago, "his father Roberto Dunoyer left for work and never came home." Instead, he used to be detained by ICE, "kept in a cage with other immigrants who slept on the floor with only aluminum blankets for warmth." "After a horrific eight days," Selena's piece continues, "Roberto was deported to Colombia."
Do now not let my family develop into some other statistic. Do not let ICE proceed to make my family suffer simply for looking to continue the lifestyles we have created on this nation. My family is not a danger to this nation. Let this tale be identified! #freethedunoyerfamily pic.twitter.com/ZRtALHS74A
— Camilo Dunoyer (@Camilodunoyer1) August 19, 2019Article continues underneath advertisement
Since then, Camilo says the Dunoyer family "is completely separated for our safety," in an interview with NBC San Diego. "We've been using phones less and living as if fugitives, as if we're on the run or criminals," he said.
The brothers "can't go home and they rarely sleep at night," Selena writes.
"Camilo told me that his biggest fear isn't being deported," Selena persisted, "it's being forgotten and becoming another faceless statistic."
Watch Living Undocumented on Netflix when it arrives Oct. 2.
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