Love Has No Borders
Rosio Fragoso and Giselle Zarco journeyed 1,397 miles from Chicago to the Mexican border in order to reunite with Saúl Zarco, Giselle’s dad and Rosio’s husband, on Father’s Day in 2014. Saúl, a Mexican citizen, has been banned to reenter the United States since his daughter was 4 months old. He left the U.S. without the proper documentation and received a 10-year bar upon reentry. Ever since then, short trips to Mexico and Skype have been the family’s only way of being together. Rosio and Giselle, both United States citizens, attempted to live in Mexico with Saúl in order to keep their family together. After Saúl survived a violent abduction, Rosio and Saúl decided the growing violence was no place for their young daughter. Rosio and Giselle moved back to the United States and continued to look for a better way to reunite with Saúl. That was when Rosio discovered Centro Sin Fronteras, a Chicago-based immigration activist organization. The organization had started exploring legal means to reunite mixed-citizen-status families. After successfully crossing barred, Mexican citizen Marlene Salmeron into the United States to be with her American family on Mother’s Day, Centro Sin Fronteras chose Saúl Zarco to be their next attempt at family reunification at the border.
