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

If I could, I'd go city by city, county by county, town by town, and talk to people to explain to them what immigration is really about - that this is not about me, this is not about us, this is not about us taking something from you. This is not about us being a threat to you. This is not about Democrat or Republican, and this is not really about border security. But in some ways our politics, and in many ways our politicians, have gotten in the way.

The last thing reporters and editors want to be told is what to do and how to write. They don't want to be some politically correct, Orwellian, kind of like "you're telling me how to write about...?"

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

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

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

You have to stand for something bigger than yourself.