Advisory: this story contains depictions of violence.
Teresa
It wasn’t my idea to try to cross the border into the US. It was a friend’s. She said, ‘Let’s go see what’s in the hills.’ I didn’t want to but she insisted. She said somebody had told her how to do it. So we went. We laughed all the way.
I got scared when it got dark. I didn’t know the area and was afraid we could get lost, or that someone would jump out and do something to us. It’s very dangerous up there. So I started joking that we should let US Immigration catch us.
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