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This is Fresh Air. I'm Dave Davies.

Season two of the comedy series Moe is now available on Netflix.

It's based on the life of Mo Amher, a comedian of Palestinian descent who grew up in Kuwait and Houston, and is fluent in Arabic, Spanish, and English.

As the first season ended, Mo was trying to stop the theft of his family's olive trees from a Texas farm

when he ended up trapped in the thieves' truck and transported to Mexico. As season two opens, he's stuck in Mexico City because he's undocumented.

He sells falafel tacos from a vending cart and plays in a mariachi band to get by,

but he's desperate to get back to Houston, where his long-awaited asylum hearing is fast approaching.

Here he's talking to a clerk at the American Embassy in Mexico

where he's been seeking a travel document to get into the United States. You know me, this is like

the 12th time I've seen you. I've seen your colleague like six times. Yeah, this is like the 13th time.

I have to ask you. Where's your passport? I don't have a passport. Exactly. Next. No. No next. The sped. I'm waiting. Wait. Wait.

Okay. Look. I got an asylum hearing coming up in Houston that I've been waiting for for 22 years. And if I get that asylum granted, I can eventually get a passport. Please, God, I've

been begging for the last six months after I was kidnapped and brought to Mexico against my will.

And no one's willing to help me.

Right.

You were kidnapped by the Olive Tree Cartel. It was, right?

But don't know that. My lawyer said, if I can get a laissez-passé, I can legally cross the border.

Yeah, but just come to terms of the fact. You're Mexican now. Okay?

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