Cristela Alonso
👤 Speaker
989
total appearances
Appearances Over Time
Podcast Appearances
Fresh Air
Comic Cristela Alonzo
My family, we're from South Texas, you know?
Fresh Air
Comic Cristela Alonzo
If you guys don't know what that is, that means that half of us were documented, half of us were undocumented, and we're not telling you which one's which.
Fresh Air
Comic Cristela Alonzo
We didn't have a lot of money growing up, you know.
Fresh Air
Comic Cristela Alonzo
We had to share a bathroom and a birth certificate.
Fresh Air
Comic Cristela Alonzo
And I love hearing you sum up my life because I think that sometimes we forget the things that we have gone through in our own lives.
Fresh Air
Comic Cristela Alonzo
So to hear it from someone else is kind of a really wonderful reminder.
Fresh Air
Comic Cristela Alonzo
Well, actually, she ended up getting her resident alien card.
Fresh Air
Comic Cristela Alonzo
I was about 10 years old when she got her card.