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'Deportation Tok' Is Taking Off | People are uploading videos of their post-deportation life to TikTok and other platforms.
People are uploading videos of their post-deportation life to TikTok and other platforms.
A man sits on the bottom bunk of a metal bed, staring down at the floor, with the caption “Empezando una nueva vida después de que me Deportaran a México” (“Starting a new life after being Deported to Mexico”). Quintanilla has a video celebrating 50,000 Instagram followers (from July 6th—he’s now at 103,000) and regularly posts on his story to announce that he’ll be going live on TikTok later, or to ask people to watch on his YouTube because he’s monetized there. But a more jarring video shows a deportation journey—a man’s feet in an orange jumpsuit, a spartan room with a mattress on the floor, a ticket, and clips from a bus journey crossing the border.
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