Opinion: My mother's dream was to raise a family in the United States. She succeeded, and so did we. [Opinion]
is retired after 45 years of service with local law enforcement agencies, including the San Diego Police Department and the San Diego County District Attorney’s Office. He lives in San Diego County.
Since she was little, her dream was to live and raise a family in the United States, the land of opportunity. But while her dream of starting a family was turning real, she became a widow and moved from Sonora to the border town of Tijuana, in the late 1940s to raise her firstborn child, Rafael. Me and my brother Armando were born in Tijuana. The three of us grew up in Tijuana with a single mother under tough financial circumstances. It was especially difficult for single mothers in those days.
We attended local schools and learned the language and customs of our great new country, despite the racial discrimination of the early 1960s. But we always maintained the values, language and memories from our old country only 15 miles away.
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