A migrant’s dream cut short: Woman’s killing in Chicago prompts Guatemalan community to band together, speak out on dangers of migrating north
CHICAGO — The last time that Reyna Cristina Ical Seb saw her family, she promised them that she would send enough money to fix their small home in a rural Indigenous town in Guatemala. At just 20 years old, she made her way north, crossing several borders before settling in Chicago last October.
Ical Seb was hopeful that she would be able to help her parents after finding a job shortly after arriving in the city where she had no other family, only colleagues from other towns in her native country.
“She just had many dreams,
