Originally from Mexico City, she migrated to the state of Jalisco at the age of 17 where she lived until 2001 when due to economic difficulties she was forced to migrate to the United States in an undocumented manner, after two failed attempts she managed to cross the border through the city of Tijuana bound for the city of Chicago where he settled for the next 15 years.

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Despite being undocumented, she worked, studied, started a family and started a new life in the neighboring country.

She participated in the mega marches of 2006 calling for immigration reform and stopping deportations, hoping one day to solve her immigration status and not be separated from her children.

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She worked for 10 years for a department store of articles of use in which she lived with women with similar life histories; Undocumented migrant mothers, when the chain of stores was sold they began to experience a series of labor abuses by the new owners, which led to a search for support, found the organization called Arise Chicago where she learned about her labor rights, Following this, he invited his colleagues to realize that despite their immigration status they had rights, so in 2013 he led a unionization campaign which unfortunately resulted in his dismissal, a situation that turned his life around since now he knew his rights.

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She began to volunteer at Centro Romero teaching literacy classes, participated as a volunteer at Mujeres Latinas en Acción where she also took the Future Entrepreneurs and Leadership for Latina Women workshops, participated in the 40-hour training. on domestic violence with which she managed to be a volunteer in the organization Un Nuevo Despertar that serves women survivors of domestic violence, participated in different activities in Latino Union that mainly works with the issue of organization and empowerment of day laborers, in ARISE Chicago began She was a volunteer, was part of the board of directors and the Workers' Center, through said organization she participated in Leadership workshops and community organization at the UIC, I was a trainer for OSHA, the federal agency of the United States in charge of regulating the laws on health and safety at work and was the coordinator of education in charge of the workshops on labor law and health and safety at work, was able to develop a specialized workshop on gender called "Working Women" dedicated to knowing the labor rights of women and was to charge of the work week within the Consulate of Mexico in Chicago in September l year 2016.

Ana Laura was deported at the end of September 2016 with a 20-year penalty for not returning to the United States under a completely arbitrary process while she wanted to regularize her immigration status.

In Mexico, he experienced first-hand the reintegration problem that people face in the face of forced return, in December 2016 he had the opportunity to meet more people in the same situation and founded the independent collective Deportados Unidos en la Lucha doing a job of accompaniment to deported people and making visible the situations they face

Currently, Ana Laura is one of the spokespersons for the struggle of the deported community in CDMX. She has collaborated with the IBERO university in the preparation of the Manual of Attention for Deported Persons DUL, also in the publication of the manual on Community Organization for deportees as a result From a collaborative work with the CDMX laboratory, he has also developed the Entre Dos Tierras and Beyond Deportation workshops where he addresses deportation from the perspective of a migrant.