Darlin_FC7 March 14, 2019 TRT: 0:14:55 01:00:00:00 01:00:11:15 DARLIN SANTOS: I feel regret because if I’d known we would end up like this Estoy arrepentida porque si hubiéramos saber que iba a pasar eso, I’d have stayed there. mejor nos hubiéramos quedado aya. Right now, we are all separated. Ahorita todos estamos separados I’m the only one here with hope. Yo soy la única que tiene esperanza 01:00:44:08 My name is Darlin. Yo me llamo Darlin. I just came out of detention. Yo acabo de salir de detention, I was there for two months. yo estuve dos meses. 01:00:59:11 I’m staying with my sister-in-law, Yolany, in Houston Me estoy quedando en la casa de Yolany, aqui en Houston Oh wow. I’m ready, I told you. Ya estoy lista, te dije. You’re doing your makeup, becoming more beautiful. American. La cara, la flaca se está poniendo guapa ya, Americana. My Sweet boy. Mi negrito. 01:01:27:00 In Honduras, the police discriminate people of color. Cuando yo estaba ahí en Honduras, la policía discrimina también a la persona por los colores. They told me they were going to kill me. Por ser , tambien me dijieron que me iban a matar. That’s why I decided to come here Por eso decidí venirme para acá. My son and his father came first, and then I followed. Papa con el nino. Ellos se vinieron primero que mi y despues me vine despues I was in Mexico when he called to tell me he had been separated from our son. Yo estaba en Mexico. Cuando el me llamó, yo le dije, “donde esta el nino?” No que me lo separaron. 01:02:00:02 They don’t tell you anything. Ahi no dicen nada, They just take your child and goodbye. Solo te quitan el niño y adios. 01:02:11:00 Then I got the call that my son is at the airport. Y en eso me llaman que mi niño estaba en el aeropuerto. HAMILTON: 10, 9, 8, 7, 6, 5, 4, 3, 2, 1 01:03:18:13 HAMILTON: My name is Hamilton Garcia Ramos. Yo me llamo Hamilton Garcia Ramos. We got caught by immigration. Nos atraparon inmigración They took my dad and sent me to New York. Y después se llevaron a mi papá y a mi me mandaron para Nueva York. It was very cold and the cars were fast. Estaba bien frío y pasaban los carros rapidos. 01:03:39:13 YOLANY? These are the classes that he took, like an English class. Estas son las clases que está cogiendo, como las clases de Inglés. They put him in First grade. Lo pusieron en primer grado. HAMILTON: Elephant. Elefante. Elephant is how you say elefante in English. Elefante se dice elephant en Inglés. 01:04:11:00 When you arrived with your dad, Y cuando te viniste con tu papa, What did they do with him? Que le hicieron ahi? HAMILTON: We were crossing and then they got him. Estábamos pasando y lo agarraron. DARLIN: They got your father? Lo agarraron a tu papa? What did they do to him? Y que le hicieron? HAMILTON: They took him to the immigration office. Lo llevaron para inmigración DARLIN: They were taking you away from him? Te iban alejar de él? That’s what they told your father? Así le dijeron a tu papa? HAMILTON: That I was leaving him. Que me iba a ir. 01:04:48:00 DARLIN: Did your father cry? Y tu papa lloro? No? No? Don’t cry. No llores. We are together now. We just need your dad. Que ya estamos juntos, solo falta tu papa. HAMILTON: I was not crying. Yo no estaba llorando. DARLIN: You were not crying? No estabas llorando? 01:05:25:00 My father left when I was ten years old, and I didn’t see him until I was twenty-five. Mi papa me dejo a los 10 años y no lo volví a conocer cuando tenía 25 años. I don’t want that for my son, Y eso no es lo que quiero para mi hijo. Everytime he calls, my son asks, “When is dad getting out?” Cada vez que hablo con él y mi papa es? Ya salio? Cuando va a salir mi papa? Me pregunta asi. Darlin: Hello? You have a call from a detainee at Port Isabel detention Center This call will be monitored and recorded. 01:06:04:06 Darlin on the phone with Jefry. They speak in Garifuna. Darlin: What’s going on? JEFRY: I got a little desperate this afternoon DARLIN: Stay cool. They are working on it. Yolany says you’ve been there for too long. They are working on getting you out. I said to her, “I don’t know why he’s been there so long.” JEFRY: How about Hamilton? DARLIN: Hamilton is here. According to him, he is helping me with my hair. JEFRY: I have to go now. 01:06:37:00 Darlin: When I hear his voice it sounds like he’s about to cry. Al escuchar la voz, yo siento que aveces el quiere llorar. Shopping cart noise. 01:07:02:00 HAMILTON: The Incredibles! It has three pockets. Los Increibles! Tiene tres ve. One, two Uno, dos DARLIN: You can put pencils in there Puedes poner lapices ahi. HAMILTON: Where? Oh, here. This one is to put food in. Cual? Este, este es para meter comida. For the water. Para el agua. Hamilton sings. Hamilton laughs. 01:07:34:02 WOMAN: She has been released and enrolled her child in school. And he doesn’t have a social security number, so I’m going to be assigning him a start number, which is good… okay. His first language is Spanish. He’s from Honduras. He’s going to start tomorrow. Okay… and only mom is here without… is he still in Honduras? YOLANY: Who? Daddy? YOLANY: Daddy is in the detention. WOMAN: Okay, okay. 01:08:41:18 Hamilton: When I went to sleep in New York, I’d pray to leave that place. Cuando nosotros nos dormíamos en Nueva York, orabamos para que nos fueramos de ahi. I prayed the same way I pray with my mom. Resabamos, cómo yo rezo aquí con mi mama. Our Father, Who art in heaven... Padre nuestro. Santificado, que estas en el cielo, danos hoy nuestro pan de cada dia. Amen, amen. Hallelujah Should I turn off the light? Apago la luz? 01:09:21:00 DARLIN: Hello. Why are you trying to do crazy stuff? We are trying to get you out of there. They are scaring you. They are not going to leave you there until November. Trust God. Don’t start with your negativity. I don’t care what he does. Para mi lo que hagas 01:10:00:22 He said he doesn’t want to be there any longer Que más tiempo ya no se va a quedar ahí. And he’ll request to be deported Y que va a pedir su deportación. If he wants to go back, that’s his decision. Si se quiere regresar, ese es su decisión. I don’t know what to tell boy anymore. No se que mas decirle al niño ya. He said, “Mama, I don’t want them to deport my dad” El me dijo, “yo no quiero que manden a mi papa, mama” 01:10:30:00 Hamilton: Every day, I dream that he has been released. Todo el dia, yo pienso que a él ya lo soltaron… But when I wake up, he is still gone. Pero cuando me levanto el todavia esta ahi. Darlin: I want him to grow up with his father. Yo quiero que él crezca con su papá. But I will not go back. Pero yo no regresaría para aya. There is no future there. No hay futuro, no hay nada aya 01:11:14:00 I’m worried. Es preocupante When he grows up… Entre mas grande, va a decir que es mi culpa he’s going to blame me. Me va a echar la culpa a mi. 01:11:40:05 Phone recording: You have a call from a detainee at Port Isabel Detention Center DARLIN: Hello? JEFRY: I got out at four in the morning. Darlin: So you’ll be here around five in the afternoon? We’ll talk when you get there. Bye. 01:12:03:00 HAMILTON: Mom, is he coming? Mami, ahi viene? 01:12:34:00 Jefry: My name is Jefry Moreira Garcia Me llamo Jefry Moreira Garcia. I missed you so much. Te extrane mucho. HAMILTON: Me too Yo tambien Let me see. Aver What’s that white stuff? Mira lo que tienes ahi blanco. Already have grey hair? Ya tienes canas? JEFRY: No. 01:12:59:01 I had never been separated from my son like that. Primera vez que me separan de mi hijo de esa manera. At six or seven in the morning, they separated me from my child and they put me in the ice box. A las 6/7 de la mañana me metieron a una hielera. They kept me there for a day and a half. Un dia y medio estube ahi 01:13:25:06 When they told me they were taking my son away I asked why. Cuando me dijeron que me iban a separar del niño, yo pregunto porque. They told me, “zero tolerance.” Y me dijeron que zero tolerancia. A month and a half passed before I knew what happened to my son. Yo estuve un mes y medio para saber de mi hijo. It’s been five and a half months without seeing my family. Ya son cinco meses y medio que no veia a mi familia. I told my wife, I can’t take it anymore. Yo le dije a mi esposa, yo ya no puedo más. I’m going to kill myself. I need to get out of this place Yo ya quiero quitarme mi vida. Ya quiero salir de ese lugar. 01:14:20:00 Because of her strength, I kept fighting. Por la fuerza de ella, seguí luchando. For what’s ahead, because there’s still a lot left to fight for. Porque viene muchas cosas para luchar. 01:14:42:10 POST SCRIPT 1: To support their family, Darlin is currently braiding hair while Jefry works in construction. 01:14:48:00 POST SCRIPT 2: The family is awaiting Their next court hearings. If denied asylum, they will be deported. 01:14:56:04 - END OF FILM