Jennifer moved to the United States from mainland China when she was 21 years old in 2002. She has been in the United States for more than eight years now. Here, she talks about how she originally entered the United States:
I came here through snakehead, who smuggled me to the United States. […] We borrowed money from our relatives and friends. After I came here, I got to work really hard to earn money and pay the money back to our relatives and friends. […] If I go to work every month, back in my days with my condition, it probably took me like three years or so [to pay off all the debt].”
