Why They Left

My grandparent’s, like thousands of other Mexican citizens, sought refuge in the United States from the political and social upheaval of the Mexican Revolution of 1910. The civil war, which lasted nearly a decade, began an unprecedented increase of Mexican immigration into the United States. The Mexican Revolution marks the genesis of the story of my family in Colorado.

Chihuahua, Mexico-Hidalgo del Parral, La Plaza (circa 1900): Many Mexicans, including Judy's grandparents, Teodoro and Francisca Baca, began their trip north from here.