Abstract
If we often hear about migration problems between Mexico and the United States, we don't really know what happens to migrants expelled from the USA, who have to come back to Tijuana, a basic Californian border city. That's why it seems interesting to enlighten the destiny of those who are called “the deportees” (los deportados in Spanish). With one million clandestine people a year, there are more than 500 expulsions a day from the USA to Tijuana. The frontier post in Tijuana is the bus terminus boarded by clandestine migrants repressed every day by the north American government. Many deportees have spent all their life in the United States.
Actually, clandestine Mexican migrants are spurned to Tijuana, and most of the time, become totally marginalized. The sewers of Tijuana seem empty of people but…there are a hundred people banned from the USA living here: “back to square one”, the American dream ends here. They keep on living in this city, near to the border, hidden underground in the tunnels or in the sewers because tracked by the Police. Many of them stay there without papers and in consequence without any right. They do not have anywhere to go, no family, so they live in Tijuana's duct, “the ground of nobody”, originally named “la tierra de nadie”.
