Rebecca was living in Chiapas, Mexico and working for the local government. However, when the 2016 elections started Rebecca, like other government employees were ousted by an emerging corrupt political party. Rebecca was harassed and threatened regularly in public. Rebecca hope that things would eventually calm down, but it did not. Rebecca read regularly that dead bodies of the opposing political party were found throughout the state. Rebecca feared that would be her and her 14-year-old son’s fate, so she fled with her son to the Unites State seeking asylum.
However, when she arrived at the border in April 2019 she was detained and separated from her son. Rebecca spent some weeks at a detention center in Colorado then transferred to Mesa Verde at the end of April 2019. Eventually her son was released to her family in Connecticut.
Rebecca never lost hope of reuniting with her son again, and in mid-June 2019 she was released from Mesa Verde and is now living with her son in Connecticut.
