Montserrat Galván Godoy 

Portrait by: Leopoldo Peña

19. Mother lioness against the wall

“Then came the big day. By mandate of bad hyenas that great wall separated the two jungles and was a major obstacle to moms and dads lions. Mom lioness had to separate from their cachorras to cross. Meanwhile the cachorras Caty and Caro could easy reach the other side of that wall because they had a certificate proving that they were born there. Their uncle took them with lion dad to the other side of the wall while lioness mother cried from the separation of her beautiful cachorras.” 

128. Love for my daughters in the face of domestic violence and deportation 

“I served the sentence the judge gave me then my husband told me that he wouldn’t help me and he wouldn’t return my daughters to me; I fell into a severe crisis of depression. A few months later I got the strength to come to Tijuana to try and locate my daughters but things aren’t as easy as I thought they’d be; some days I didn’t eat, I slept here and there. Finally I gave up on trying to cross.”

19. Mother lioness against the wall

128. Love for my daughters in the face of domestic violence and deportation