Mariana van Zeller
๐ค SpeakerAppearances Over Time
Podcast Appearances
I'm an immigrant.
They might actually take away my citizenship.
So one of the stories you covered, and I think exemplifies what's happening to me right now, is Estella and Nori.
This is a mother and a daughter from Guatemala.
The daughter was born in Guatemala with her mother, and her mother was gang raped in a small town.
She's from a small, impoverished town in rural Guatemala.
She was gang raped.
And the next day, and her daughter watched her being gang raped.
Fueled, violently beaten up.
She had blood all over her face.
They broke her bones.
With her daughter, who was young at the time, watching.
And the next day, she decided she had family members in the U.S., and she decided, this is it.
I can't live here, and I have to take my daughter to a place that's safer.
Her daughter was traumatized, by the way, by now.
They came to the U.S.
They immediately went and asked for asylum, which, by the way, most people don't know this, but it is completely legal.