Camila Cabello remembers when she crossed the border of Mexico and the United States at the age of 7

Just as thousands of Latino families migrate to the United States in search of a better life, singer Camila Cabello’s parents decided to emigrate to give their daughter better opportunities, something the singer recently recalled.

According to information from a media outlet, at the age of seven, the interpreter of Miss he crossed the border of Mexico and the United States next to his mother with only a couple of clothes, some groceries and a couple of dollars. And even though she was very young and did not understand some things, she remembers that her mother told her that they would make that trip to visit Disney World.

During an interview, Camila Cabello narrated a little more about her trip in which she had to leave her father in Mexico due to her Mexican nationality, since the plan was to take advantage of an immigration policy at that time, known as “dry feet, wet feet”, which had the purpose of favoring Cubans who arrived in the United States.

My mom crossed the Mexican border with me when I was seven years old. We had to leave my dad behind. She only had a few clothes in a backpack, basically no money, she didn’t speak English.

Later, after the singer and her mother of Cuban origin crossed the border, her father caught up with them by crossing the Rio Grande. Another of the things that Camila remembered from that time was that the only thing that she took from her belongings to her journey was a doll and a diary.

It should be noted that this is not the first time that Camila Cabello has told a little about her crossing the border, because, at a certain point, she told the magazine popsugar latina that it was not until she reached adolescence that she understood the difficult situation that her family went through, since she and her parents, as well as many immigrants, started from scratch in a place they did not know with little money and no idea of ​​what might happen next.

In fact, the singer assures that this experience in her life has served her for the moments in which fear paralyzes her. It is precisely her own mother who reminds her of that family anecdote so that her fear of the unknown does not stop her.

Every time I now have to make a decision and feel afraid, my mother always reminds me of that day we crossed the border. That day, she knew that if she stopped to think about what we were doing, fear would make her back off.

In this way, the singer has not only remembered and honored her roots, but also fully understands the sacrifice her parents made so that she would have more opportunities. Surely, now that she is a famous singer of international stature, her parents think that all the sacrifices were worth it.