and raising three sons with her second husband, Mexican artist Francisco Mora. Aware of her Communist affiliations, the United States government began surveilling Catlett. When she became a Mexican citizen in 1962, the US immediately deemed her an "undesirable alien" and barred her from entering the country until nearly a decade later. As a political exile, Catlett brought a global perspective to her work. She immersed herself in international cultural networks that extended beyond the US and