Rojas told Univision 41 in New York that the reality there is very different from what she had imagined, the national newspaper reported.
“Life is very hard, they sold us a dream, they talked to us about a little bird in the air, but it’s not like that,” Rojas, of 47 years old, said.
She added that, with the change of government and the new immigration policies, she is afraid to walk in the streets, since she does not have legal documents to reside in the country.
According to Diario Libre, Rojas told Univision 41 that she arrived in New York two years ago with her 11-year-old son after crossing the so-called “vuelta por Mexico” and settled in Brooklyn.
Talking about the hardships she went through to live the so-called “American dream”, she said that she was kidnapped in Mexico and spent a lot of work with her child, not knowing what was going to happen.
She explained that “when we arrived here (United States), I found a different reality than what I had thought.”
There is a lot of panic among Dominicans to the point that many places that were always full of “Creoles” today look empty because of the repression of the authorities, locals said upon their arrival at the international airport of Las Americas, in Santo Domingo, from the United States, according to Hoy daily.
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