The woman who is the central character in “<i>The Cleaning Lady,” </i> holding two of her children before she left them to cross into the United States. She was gone for 15 years before returning home.
The woman who is the central character in “The Cleaning Lady,” holding two of her children before she left them to cross into the United States. She was gone for 15 years before returning home. ( Photo: Courtesy of Erika de Alexander and “Marisol.”)

The short-form documentary, which was four years in the making, tells the story of a mother of three who crossed the border into the United States without her children and without documentation and after 15 years here decided to “self deport” back to Mexico.

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“I would have never left [my children] if I had known that I couldn’t [eventually] bring them with me.” So says Marisol Reina (a pseudonym), the subject of “The Cleaning Lady,” a documentary by producer Carlos Ibarra and director Ericka de Alexander, which premiered recently at DocNYC.

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Virginia Maloney is the sixth Democratic candidate to enter the race for city council in District 4, vying to fill a city council seat once held by her mother, former Congress member Carolyn Maloney. Virginia Maloney (right, standing above crowd) held her fundraiser at St. Pat’s Bar &amp; Grill on W. 46th St.
Virginia Maloney is the sixth Democratic candidate to enter the race for city council in District 4, vying to fill a city council seat once held by her mother, former Congress member Carolyn Maloney. Virginia Maloney (right, standing above crowd) held her fundraiser at St. Pat’s Bar & Grill on W. 46th St. ( Photo: Arlene Kayatt)

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