Norma Carbajal González, head of documentation at the Mexican Consulate of Las Vegas, has spent the better part of her quarter-century tenure as a Mexican diplomat living north of the border. Until now, she says, no one in her family has ever expressed any concerns about visiting her in the United States.
“My mom recently asked me, ‘Hey, what would happen if I’m walking and the police or some other agent approaches me and asks for my documents?’ I could see that she was concerned, as that question had never come up before,” Carbajal González says. “If she—who has all her documents and has been traveling maybe two or three times per year to visit me—asks me that, I couldn’t see how a tourist coming just for a couple of days would feel comfortable.”
