Content Warning: This episode discusses ICE raids, undocumented status, family separation fears, and childhood trauma related to immigration.

In this episode of Cafecito & Chaos, I sit down with our Compa Hugo and our Comadre Vero for a deeply personal conversation about growing up in immigrant households during—and after—undocumented status.

With current ICE raids bringing old fears back to the surface, we reflect on what it was like to be kids carrying adult responsibilities: translating for our parents, staying hyper-alert, and learning early that safety was never guaranteed. We talk about our parents’ journeys to legalization, what changed, what didn’t, and why the fear often lingers long after the papers arrive.

This isn’t a political debate or legal advice—this is the human side of immigration. The emotional imprint it leaves on first-gen kids, especially the oldest, and how those early survival patterns show up in our lives today.

Grab your cafecito, take a breath, and join us for an honest conversation about family, survival, and healing.

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This episode I’m sitting down with my amiguis Oscar Contreras — an artist, a corporate king, and someone who’s been navigating identity, culture, and creativity in a city that doesn’t always make space for all of it at once.

Oscar is first-gen, proudly gay, and living in Dallas — balancing a corporate career while staying true to his artistic voice. This conversation is about what it really looks like to exist between worlds: corporate professionalism and creative freedom, cultural expectations and personal truth, visibility and survival.

We’re talking about identity, resilience, and what it means to take up space when you were never taught that space was meant for you.

Check out Oscar’s art at: https://oscarcontrerasartist.com/

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This episode on Cafecito & Chaos, I sat down with two women who have seen every version of me — from the awkward kid to the healing grown woman I am now.

We talk friendship, culture, family, and how we’re raising our kids differently.

If you love comadre energy, this one’s for you.

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