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This is a song from Tigres Del Norte is about an immigrant feeling trapped in his own home. Trapped because he’s paranoid of getting arrested, trapped because his kids don’t speak Spanish with him anymore since they grew up going to an American school, trapped because no matter how much money he can earn or send back home – it doesn't fix anything, it just allows him to buy a golden jail cell. I think everyone can get behind this feeling, immigrants and non-immigrants alike. Chasing the international ever-dangling carrot of “The American Dream”. The Sample is an old working class woman cursing out the government during a protest of the 1991 signing of the NAFTA.

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Aquí estoy establecido,
en los Estados Unidos,
diez años pasaron ya,
en que cruce de mojado,
papeles no he arreglado,
sigo siendo un ilegal,
Tengo mi esposa y mis hijos,
que me los traje muy chicos,
y se han olvidado ya,
de mi México querido,
del que yo nunca me olvido,
y no puedo regresar.
De que me sirve el dinero,
si estoy como prisionero,
dentro de esta gran nación,
cuando me acuerdo hasta lloro,
aunque la jaula sea de oro,
no deja de ser prisión.
\" Escúchame hijo, te gustaría que regresáramos a vivir a México,\"
What's talkin about dad?,
I don't wanna go back to MEXICO,
no way dad.

Mis hijos no hablan conmigo,
otro idioma han aprendido,
y olvidado el español,
piensan como americanos,
niegan que son mexicanos
aunque tengan mi color,
De mi trabajo a mi casa,
yo no se lo que me pasa,
que aunque soy hombre de hogar,
casi no salgo a la calle,
pues tengo miedo que me hallen,
y me pueden deportar.
De que me sirve el dinero,
si estoy como prisionero,
dentro de esta gran nación,
cuando me acuerdo hasta lloro,
aunque la jaula sea de oro,
no deja de ser prisión.

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from El Desencantamiento De Mar​í​a Sabina, released November 3, 2014

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