Francisco Segovia

People, teachers remain being a target of the government.

So then with my ex-wife, who was expecting, she was six months pregnant.

We had to migrate.

I look for the Canadian embassy and look for political asylum.

but there was no Canadian embassy.

And then the only idea, some relative says, why don't you come to the United States?

I hesitated a little bit about coming to the United States because understanding the role of the United States in El Salvador, but eventually we couldn't, didn't have any other options.

So we did, and like many millions of people and many Salvadorians in the 80s, I traveled north without documents.

Crossed three borders and the last one, United States without documents.

Yeah.

At that point.

At that point in the 90s, Tijuana and...

They were building the wall.

There was no fence.

There was no fence at that moment.

I do remember that basically we went to the border and from there we just crossed.

And I mean, there were hundreds of people trying to cross and agents were chasing many people.

There were so many people trying to cross and that's what happened to us.

Right, right.

So we went to Florida where our family lived.