Cristela Alonso
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So it was this thing where, you know, she became the first woman in her family to leave her husband.
You stuck through and you dealt with it.
I mean, this woman had like a second grade education, couldn't speak the language here.
And she decided that that was better than staying married to my dad.
So this is at the point where they're already in the U.S.?
They had been coming back and forth from the U.S.
So they would come here and then they'd go back to Mexico.
They were trying to establish a life here, but then they would go back.
That's the thing that I think is one of those perspectives in immigration that we don't talk about enough is immigrants come to this country mostly out of a need.
It's in search of this opportunity that they don't have at home.