Alejandra González
Portrait by: Leopoldo Peña
143a. A Woman Ready to Fight: One Day at a Time
“I came to be detained in the United States the first time in San Ysidro by the DE, the Drug Enforcement Administration. They did an illegal search on me. They were all men and they told me to get naked. I was 18 years old. They treated me like a prostitute, a whore… After that, I came to realize that in the United States there is nothing left for me. There were a lot of deportations. In the end, the last deportation that I had was an official deportation in 2011. They told me that in ten years I could come back. As of today, I do not want to go back to the United States.”
143b. A Woman Ready to Fight: One Day at a Time: Part II
“He was so beautiful. He wanted to be a girl when he was a little kid… And him being gay for me it didnt have no… I didn’t care. I loved him like that. But I knew he was going to have more trouble, and more trouble being gay and being an addict. Being in Tijuana and being illegal in the United States… I am scared of finding out who killed my son because he got killed, he got choked. He was found in a suit cause, which I saw when they found his body.”