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

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.

A broken immigration system means broken families means broken lives. That's what is at stake.

I think I've always been paranoid.

For some people, I got away with something. And you know what? That's a fair thing to say, for them. I'm not saying I agree with that, but I can see how they can say that. But it's a matter of just like...you know, I'm really fortunate. As a journalist, I don't have to agree with you to talk to you. My job is to figure out why you think the way you think. I want to get to the root of why you think the way you think. That's what I find most fascinating as a storyteller.

I like Q&A's better than articles sometimes because I feel like I'd rather hear somebody actually talk or wrestle with.

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