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Meet Sanjuana Rodriguez, or “Jenny” as her friends and family call her. Sanjuana was born and raised in Juarez, Mexico. Despite being surrounded by her family, friends, and the life she established for herself, her concern with security in Juarez was the deciding factor in Sanjuana’s decision to move to the United States with her husband and her 4 children in April 2010, when she was 34 years old. Sanjuana remembers a recurring feeling of uncertainty when she moved to the Uni

Maria Elizabeth Monarrez was born in a little town in Durango, Mexico which is where most of her family still lives today. In Mexico, she had what she considered “a simple life.” She grew up taking care of her father’s cattle by taking them to the paddock and feeding them, tasks that she would still occasionally do as an adult. Otherwise, once she was married and had children, her days centered around family:  sending her kids to school, cleaning and doing household chores th

Meet Juanita Garza. She is from Nuevo Laredo, Mexico. After being raised in, getting married and starting a family in Nuevo Laredo, Juanita did not expect to come to the United States. Her husband had a stable job working in a factory in Laredo, a neighboring town across the U.S.-Mexico border, and she was with her 8 children and her extended family. But after her husband received a job offer in Bryan, she visited the city and eventually moved here with her family in the 1980