- Hello, SoulPancake, may I help you?
Gotta go.
- [Jimmy] Rainn, my man.
- Jimmy Jean-Louis,
- I'm fine, man.
So, what's going on?
- You know, just putting in a little work in here
at SoulPancake.
- Cool.
- What brings you here?
- Hungry, really.
You wanna grab some food?
- Yeah, I'm starving.
What are you thinking?
- Haitian?
- You got a place in mind?
- Yep.
- Let's do it. - Yeah, man.
- Let's call an Uber.
So where's this place, anyway?
- Tijuana, baby.
- We're going to get Haitian food in Tijuana?
Can you,
can you explain that to me?
- Two things.
First of all, there is no Haitian restaurants in LA.
- Why is there a Haitian restaurant in Tijuana?
- Because Tijuana is full of Haitians.
- There are Haitians in Tijuana?
- Yeah.
- A couple dozen?
A couple hundred?
- There's a full community there.
Thousands.
- Okay.
I'm a Haitian dude, how do I get to Tijuana, Mexico?
- After the earthquake, they left Haiti.
Some of them were able to go to Brazil,
Chile, South America.
They couldn't find jobs, decided to come fly off to America.
Got stuck in Tijuana.
- [Rainn] Thanks so much.
Is this the place?
- Yep.
This is the place, my friend.
- [Rainn] Look, Haitian flag.
- [Jimmy] You see.
- Hola senora.
Dos comidas Haitian, por favor.
- Rainn, Rainn, Rainn. - What?
- Let me handle that.
- Okay. - Okay.
- So, I'd love to hear their stories.
Can you ask them how they got to Tijuana?
What kind of work were you doing?
- If you guys were working from job to job,
why did you leave?
Ah, 'cause sometimes they abused them.
Sometimes they didn't pay them.
Let me translate that.
I think that's very interesting.
The brother in the dreads, you know,
he's saying that Mexico is doing a lot for the Haitians.
It's up to us, to the Haitians, to be legal,
and then stay in the society and become part of it.
- All of these people are feeling the pressure
of supporting their families back at home in Haiti?
- Every single Haitian outside of Haiti
feels the pressure of supporting their families.
- Wow.
Thank you, thank you.
- Man, there's a play going on on Sunday.
I think they want us.
- To act?
- Yeah.
- Seriously? - Are you up for it?
- Let's do it.
- Alright. - I could get discovered.
Ooo, Trump pinatas.
Man, this is another side of Tijuana, I tell ya.
- It looks so much like Haiti, right?
- It does.
How'd the Haitians end up out here?
- There's a pastor here that welcomed them,
so he has a church and that's what we're gonna see.
We're gonna try to visit them and see how many
Haitians come here.
It smells bad.
- [Rainn] It's terrible.
Okay, sound?
And we're rolling?
- I built with my hands.
I have a dream.
In that dream, God said me,
"You have to build a very big church.
"You have to build fast, very fast."
Many, many people came here and helped me.
- [Rainn] How many Haitians were staying here?
- Since August to this point,
we have about 3,500.
- [Rainn] And how many are living in the church now?
- About 200 in this moment.
- [Jimmy] How do you get help to help the Haitians?
- I work, my wife work, and all the donations
that the people provide us.
Not the government.
The government
doesn't help.
- So now, when they go to the border,
they're not gonna have that white paper to show
so that means, they live in Mexico.
So they don't have that paper that gives them that--
- Oh.
That's a Catch-22.
- It's a Catch-22.
- Here we go.
Places, please.
Places for the Passion play.
- You can be a soldier.
- [Man] Yeah?
- Or you can be the devil.
- [Rainn] I'm a gladiator.
I'm helping torture Jesus.
- Okay, you're going to be Joseph.
- What are we doing?
What are you doing?
What are we doing?
- [Rainn] No idea.
So, that's the border.
Here we are in Mexico and, you can throw a Frisbee
and have it land in the United States.
A lot of hullabaloo over these walls.
Jimmy, you didn't really bring me down here
for lunch, did you?
Best chicken I ever had.