| 'Crossing Over' Documents Plight of Transgender Mexican Women Seeking Asylum in US On Top Magazine | |
| go to original December 22, 2014 |
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Crossing Over: Stories of Immigration and Identity documentary is about three Mexican transgender women in Los Angeles filing for political asylum. (Isabel Castro)
The documentary from director Isabel Castro takes a look at the lives of three transgender Mexican women as they seek political asylum in the United States.
Francis Murillo, Brenda Gonzalez and Abigail Madariaga fled Mexico and are now living in Los Angeles to escape the stigma, discrimination and persecution associated with being transgender in the highly Catholic nation.
“There were various abuses,” Gonzalez says in the film. “They would tie me from my hands and feet to rape me, to abuse me.” Castro, a Mexican immigrant, told On Top in 2012 that she's passionate about immigration issues.
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