Adriana's Short Story

Adriana’s story is a little different than Susanne’s story. Adriana had been hanging out with her new boyfriend of only a week when she was introduced to his family. Things quickly took a turn for the worse when she was denied going home, and was held captive and threats against her family were made. She was told she was going to be working at a gold factory in Tijuana, but upon arrival, she was forced to work in the red zone, where she stayed for three days before being transported to San Diego for prostitution. In San Diego, her boyfriend’s dad was waiting for them to cross the border to continue the journey to New York. Before they did, she was forced to prostitute herself to “the hotel clerk and one other man” (Aguilera). It was only the beginning of a long journey ahead of her full of unknowns. She eventually found herself in New York, where she lived with her “traffickers father and six of his women behind a hotel” (Aguilera). She was not allowed to have Mexican clients who spoke Spanish, in fear that she would say something to them in Spanish and make them aware of her situation. She was given drugs and pills and often was injected with drugs which made her feel very ill. She thought that would be …show more content…
Susanne was recruited by her cousins to join her for a better job opportunity, which was a false and was only told that to persuade her to go. In Adriana’s story, she was forced into prostitution and was threatened by her trafficker. Susanne also endured threats from her cousins and would suffer consequences if she did what she wasn’t supposed to be doing. They were both transported to different areas of Mexico and one was even transported out of the Country. The one’s who gained from this, as was briefly mentioned above, are the customers and the traffickers, who pocket most or all the