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tion worker and certified welder, was deported five years ago while in Tracy, California. Rachel moved to the border so she could be closer to him. She now lives in one
room with no kitchen. She cooks using a skillet or microwave. She says the building is in terrible con- dition. Broken windows are never fixed, the walls have mildew and cement is trapped in the pipes of her bathroom sink. “The smell in my
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house is terrible, not because my house is dirty. It’s because the sink stinks. The walls in the bath- room, no matter how many times you scrub it, the darkness of it will not come off.”
She was one of these kids A rosary hangs from the rearview mirror of
Medina’s truck. She tells me, “It’s ironic that I have to do this for our students who sometimes get kicked out, especially if they are in a hotel or they’re couch-surfing. I have to vouch for them. It’s so ironic how I am advocating for children who are just like me.” Medina, too, was once
classified as a homeless student. While attending San Ysidro Middle School in the 1980s, her parents split up. Her dad moved to Tijuana. Her mom became addicted to drugs. Medina spent many nights and weekends alone in a San Ysidro apartment, not knowing where her mother might be. At one point, her mother couldn’t pay rent and they ended up in a hotel. For two years, Medina bounced back and forth between couch-surfing with her
mother and living with her grandmother. At one point, Medina
got kicked out of middle school. She was present at a group fight, and they needed to contact her mom. “I had told the prin- cipal that I didn’t know where my mom was.” The principal asked
Medina where her father lived and she said Tijuana. He asked again and she answered the same. “They were asking the wrong questions, and I was giving them answers.” Medina gives out her jolly laugh despite the pain- ful memory. When Medina’s
father came to pick her up, the principal said she couldn’t come back to school because she lived in Mexico. It was her grandmother who stomped over to the middle school and told the
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