America is White and Black and Latino and Asian. America is mixed. America is immigrants.

I'm not a politician. I'm not a policy wonk. I was a political reporter, but that's not really what turns me on. What turns me on is how people perceive the issue and how people see people like me.

America is White and Black and Latino and Asian. America is mixed. America is immigrants.

When people call me illegal, calling me illegal says more about you than it does about me.

One of the things I had to really wrap my head around is I have no control over what people call me: advocate, activist, gay, Filipino, undocumented person, gay person with an Asian face and Latino name.

Film, as any immigrant will tell you, television and movies is the way we make sense of America when we first got here.

I always felt like I had the word "illegal" tattooed on my forehead.