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

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.

There's always to me a universality - one of the things I learned early on as a journalist and a writer is that there's a universality in specifics. The more specific you get, the more universal it can be.

Independent of politics, the changing narrative on immigration is directly correlated to the fact that we have new technologies that are allowing people to talk to each other and tell their own stories and organize themselves.

I think I've always been paranoid.

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