People We Meet: Hermelinda Estrada Medrano

San Francisco CA

07 November, 2021

5:18 PM

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By Naomi Marcus, Mission Local November 7, 2021 The first time she came to San Francisco, Hermelinda Estrada Medrano left her hometown, Tarimoro in the state of Guanajuato , Mexico, and crossed the mountains with a smuggler. She was 45 and wanted to see how her young adult kids were doing here. One by one, her older sons had come to San Francisco. So she crossed over mountains in Mexico (" me vine por el cerro"), and came across the border in Tijuana with Enrique, her youngest child of nine in her backpack. He was 5 at the time. To read the full article, click here. Mission Local covers San Francisco from the vantage point of the Mission, a neighborhood with all of the promise and problems of a major city. You can support Mission Local here.