CHICAGO — The last time that Reyna Cristina Ical Seb saw her family, she promised them that she would send enough money to fix their small home in a rural Indigenous town in Guatemala. At just 20 years old, she made her way north, crossing several borders before settling in Chicago last October.
Ical Seb was hopeful that she would be able to help her parents after finding a job shortly after arriving in the city where she had no other family, only colleagues from other towns in her native country.
“She just had many dreams, just like all of us,” said her friend Josue Isaias Caal.
