I apologize for the delay in postings, this final interview that I planned to do was very hard to get. My husbands mother, Rocio, was just facing the one of many perils of being deported to Mexico, lack of money.
It almost seems to be a normal thing now,new send money weekly, she gets the money, is extremely thankful and the next week we do it all over again. don’t get me wrong, she is by no means lazy and depending on the money that we send her, she works 8 hours a day, 6 days a week and makes the rough equivalent of 20$, minus lunch every day. Things may be cheaper in Mexico (according to my husband you can get 3 tacos from a street vendor for 5 pesos each 1$) but imagine only living off of 20$, having to work daily and living in bedroom house with mold growing above where you sleep. This is the reality for Rocio, deported roughly 3 years ago with a 10 year restriction from entering the United States.
I talk to her frequently and she always tells me because she is not here to take care of her baby for her. My recent conversation with her may have been one of the saddest that I’ve had.
We were talking about the weather, how it’s freezing here and quite warm down there when she asked me “Do you ever wish I was there?” It blindsided me, of course I wish she was here. She left a life behind, three kids, a house, a job.
Whats most important to realize here is that this woman has worked hard her entire life to make sure her children were to live a long, safe life. Mexico is not that ccould happen.
although her life is rough right now, she longs for the day that she can finally come back to America and she her kids as well as live the life she wanted to create for her kids, a happy one.