Birmingham-area immigration advocate Giovanna Hernandez-Martinez has come forward to share her thoughts on TikTok after spending over a month in a Louisiana detention facility .

Last month, Hernandez-Martinez decided to leave the U.S. to live with extended family in Mexico City after being detained by U.S. Immigrations and Customs Enforcement in early August during a traffic stop in Leeds.

In a TikTok uploaded Wednesday, she detailed her family’s journey to the U.S. and the obstacles they faced trying to obtain citizenship.

She says she is looking to “continue supporting and advocating for my community back home from here in Mexico.”

“At the age of seven years old, my family and I immigrated to the U.S.,” she said.

“We moved to Alabama in the year 2007, where I missed the cut

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