Libraries. I like to own t they might loan me a book or Something Like that. I do go to bookstores and just browse like everybody else. I read reviews. And you know, i just see something or hear something, there is no particularly systematic way. Or i decide i want to, you know, i want to read something on fillintheblank. You just go to the internet and pop up something about this and there you go. And then i try, if i am going to have an opportunity to meet an author, the other night at the library of congress, we had this president ial series that they are doing and i didnt have a chance to meet him but i was an admirer of evan thomas who wrote a book i friend of mine got me that was autographed from him. So i wanted to make sure i read being nixon which is one of the best and sympathetic portraits of Richard Nixon i have ever read. One of the nice things in this business is you have those opportunities more than others do. Host on the night evan thomas was at the library of congress how many members . Guest quite a few and very bipartisan. Probably at least 50 i would say there. A lot of couples. But it got a big turnout. And again, it is just a terrific book. I was sitting next to ken calvert who had, i think, he was like chairman of california youth for nixon and knew nixon very well. He was talking about the call he got from nixon the night he won his congressional seat in 72. He was talking about a wonderful guy, ken kichen, who was a nixon speechwriter in california and he said i was talking to ken earlier and ken is all through the book but i dont think he had read it yet. So he said, ken told me, you go listen and you make sure he is fair. And at the end of the evening, ken concluded he was very fair and told me i am going to call back and let him know it is okay, nixon got a fair treatment here. Host have you read president ial biographies on most president s . Guest quite a few. They are interesting. I dont have any my place is about the same as everybody else. Maybe not. Nixon is a niche taste i will grant you. A lot of him and eisenhower. And again you get wonderful privileges when you serve. Susan eisenhower i have met on several occasions and she was kind enough to invite me, and my chief of staff to come out to gettysberg of the post president homestead. It was one memory after another. Here is where i met jeff of the house and i said i got close to his plane in 59. I will never forget going out there to look at the plane that brought him to the cruise ship. He was the Master Sergeant on the base and a viewing area that he could get pretty close. My brother and i. It was wonderful. But she just, you know, what a treat. She is, you know, sitting there listening to stories about her grand father and grandmother and what they were like and see the things in the home but have a personal touch with this was this and this is where i used to sit while my grandmother was doing this and that. Host i dont know if you picked up Peter Carlson of the Washington Post about chris jeffs trip. Guest i have not read that. It was a big deal. I am old enough at the time it was 59 so i was like 910 years old. And i remember it. You know, very very well and follow it on television and all of those sorts of things. But you know, again, she has one story after another. Churchill, montgomery and walking the battlefield with her dad. And i would run off and the secret service would try to catch me or follow me. She is a wonderful person. But what a treat. Host the importance of William Shakespeare to our culture and our politics in your view. Guest pretty profound. Next to the bible shakespeare has probably had more influence on the way we think, talk and literature than any other person certainly in the history of our language. So you know, it is wonderful, obviously. It is great art and plays but it is great history, too. It a reminder that character and history really matter. History is not jus a matter of demographic forces. That is a big part of it. Individuals count and matter. Motivati motivations are complex. I am no shakespearean sculler but anyone who says he hasnt been the most influential writer in english history and maybe around the world because he is studied in so many languages i think you have make him an important guy. Host lets say after congress you go back to teaching and you have to teach a class and give your students one book to read. Guest that is the most unfair questions. Host it is an obnoxious question. Guest it would depend on what i was teaching. If i was just giving them a great book on American History i would probably pick i love Steven Ambrose and he used to say his Favorite Book to write and he had a thrlehree volume o nixon, and he wrote a book that is called, if i remember, crazy horse and custard, the dual lives of two american warriors. I found a copy of it when where was going to little big horne battlefield out on an expedition and always wanted to see that place which is haunting and there was inbook. I bought the book at the park, you know, the little place where you get trinkets and books. It is a fabulous book about these two very different warriors with very different traditions. If you live on the plains, and oklahoma is part of that, the first massacre is in oklahoma, it is in western oklahoma. I worked with frank lucas years ago when he was in congress and i was secretary of state in private hands to get it into the National Park system which is now thank goodness. But, you know, he described perfectly everything from weather to how this mass battlefield shakes regionally the obviously shaped the sioux and the other great plains tribes that were involved. But the major warfare and the weather and how they interacted. It is a great book and you know when you are in it sheer a guy that has been pulled into the character of custer and pulled into the character of crazy horse and you know, it is just understands and was so good. You know, i could pick out a bunch of other books and tell you. But i would pick this one or this one. It would not necessarily be a history book even. But again, colony again has a wonderful first rome series and that book on politics and entry is probably better than any history written at the time. There is wonderful histories. Boy, what a tremendous historical novel. You learn a lot from it. Congressman tom cole thank you for joining us. Watching the non fiction authors on booktv is the best television for serious readers. On cspan they can have a longer con patiencesation and dwelve into subjects. Booktv brings you author after author that spotlight the work of fascinating people. I love booktv and i am a cspan fan. Booktv recently visited capitol hill to ask members of congress what they are reading this summer. I plan to do four things. The first is bully pulpit which is of course about Teddy Roosevelt and William Howard taft. As an old history teacher i want to go into the that because it is a fascinating era. I should take from the title they will talk a lot about journalism. So the author did go a lot about into the journalist at the period of the time and shorted the history i wanted but it wet my appetite for it. Last year i read a book about speaker cannon, the relationship cannon had with Teddy Roosevelt because something where thought would be fascinating. Barely mentioned at all. I am through it. Taft has been elected and lets see what happens from here on end. That is the first one. And then since i love baseball i am going to pickup a baseball book called the bullpen gospels. Bullpen gospels which i have read before but i want to reread it. It is about a kid who becomes a relief pitcher on the major leagues after a long way coming. It is written in such a funny style i have to admit in the three three chapters i was laughing at loud which is embarrass on the plane when kwlm i am sitting next to him. But it is wellwritten and cool and has insight. The fourth and last year one of my staffers gave me a book about joe cannon. He is going to continue on with that trend. That gaves me two of the four with great speakers in the history of the house. What to me is fascinating is not only was he the longest speaker server of the house and speaker when the seniority system was in place. He could not reward or punish anyone. He said when i meet the chairman of the committee i bow at the waste. He got his way but had to do it through persuasion and whatever he did and that is what i hope to find out. What was his secret of being such a powerful force in the house without having the overt tools other speakers had to force compliance. He had to do it by the force of his personality. And the last one is an another reread. When i was teaching history it will always be 1776 and giving people a concept of what it was like during the signing of the declaration. Realizing full hand it is close history but not history. Since it was written basically in the end of the 60s before it was produced there is a lot of 1960s concepts thrown in and the characters are a compilation. So john adams in the play is compilation of sam and john adams but i think the authors did a good job capturing the personalitys of the people involved. The other thing i liked was the actual language and writings of these individuals is used. After doing the play several times, i read through it, and you read other stuff by these individuals and you are like i remember that. It is kind of cool the way the authors have done a brilliant job in weaving an actual history. The language style is different in the 1700s than it is today. They were able to weave it into something that was enterta enteg and enjoyable. When i was Teaching School i had a kid debate on if this was realisic it. I said it is close to history. And he said you mean they sang back then and i said no this is a musical. One time we were watching a movie and he turned around saying what were they talking about and i said the revolutionary war and he said did we win it. I realized i had a lot of work to do with this kid. Booktv wants to know what you reading. Tweet us booktv or on facebook facebook. Com booktv. Janes new book, in the country we love is a moving memior that has received praise in the community. She israel volunteers with a Legal Resource Center and an organization that promotes civil involvement. She has also been named an ambassador for citizenship and natur naturalization by the white house. Tonight she is joined by the Baltimore Suns Award WinningEducation Report winner liz buoy and liz, we thank you for being here and moderating this conversation with diane. Please welcome diane and liz to the Pratt Library. Hello. Good evening. Can you all hear us . Well, i just wanted to start the con versation by having diane tell you. You probably know her as an actress but probably dont know her back story. I wanted to ask you to give a brief introduction about the story and structure. Thank you, liz, judy, Pratt Library and all of you for being here. I feel honored you came out to hear me speak. I will try my best. My parents are columbian immigrants. I was born in new jersey but raised in boston . My parents came here with a visa in hopes i mean this story changes. Sometimes they say, you know, we were just going to see how, you know, check out the states or, you know, my mother had hopes of staying and making a family here and making her dreams come true, of course. And eventually their visa expired and they wanted to try to figure out a way to become citizens. So that was their journey and their quest. So they were undocuments for as long as i can remember. Undocumented. My childhood was shaped by that fact. My parents were very honest with me as a young girl. I knew what their status was and i knew clearly what my status was. I was an american citizen and they were not. I had something they wanted desperately and they made it clear they needed that so we could stay together. So i remember every prayer, every wish was that my parents got these papers that they needed so that we could stay together. We managed to live our lives but it was scary and i know anybody who has been through this experience knows how intense it is and how interesting your life can become when you are living in the shadows. So i grew up with this dream but i always had another dream. I had the dream of maybe one day becoming an entertainer, performer, an artist, and my parents were deported because of their lock of documents, i decided to stay and pursue my dream which is to stay here and finish my education and try to live out my own dreams in the country we love. I know it is corny but i always put that in there. Yesterday, right, i was making this video for this event and, you know, i put that in there, i said in the country we love and i winked because i felt embarrassed. And my friend is like own it. It is the country you love so own it. Now i am not winking it. I am saying so i could say in the country we love and pursue my dreams and form my own life. And then so here we are. I think 1415 years passed and i wasnt dealing with the cloud over my life which is ill immigration. I started seeing the topic come up in the news and day to day conversations and the word immigration would come up and my ears were ringing and i would want to talk about it but i couldnt because i felt you know all sorts of stuff, you know, i had a lot of issues because my parents were deported. I didnt want to deal with that. But then i saw there was a need to use my voice in this way and so it started little by little. I wrote an opted feeling out the water. I didnt think anybody would read the opted. I thought i will do this and no one is going to read it and it is odd and how i lived my life by trying things out and telling people and i tried and people read it and it got attention and i realized it was an important issue and i had to talk about it. And i had to talk about it because i had been through this experience and i knew millions of people were going through the same thing and our country needed voices like mine, people who had been through it first hand and could share a human story. And kind of be part of the conversation. And then, you know, lalala lots of stuff happened and then i wrote this book and now i am here. Was that too long . No, that was great. I think one of the interesting things about the book and i have worked a lot of on storeies abot immigration in the last year. We hear so much about the journeys to america from people all over the world but we dont always hear what happens once they are here. We dont always hear the voice of the child whose parents are deported. We dont hear how is it if you are an iraqi girl and arrive in baltimore . What happens after you get here. And so i think those voices are really important to be heard more. I wanted to ask dianne to read sort of a crucial moment in the book, her book, when i will set it up a little. Once her parents were taken out of the house they were detained for a while in prison so she could go visit them. She went to sort of say goodbye to her mom and i will let you start from there. This is in the prison, yeah. Guest okay. Excuse me if i slub or something i have some learning disabilities. It is not funny but true. I know not the best profession. Always challenging myself. Here it goes. You ready . Amelia asked. I stood and pif pivoted so i could avoid mommys face. As much as i longed to see her i always didsant want to remember her like this. Not with her wrists chained up, not in an orange jump suit. The person behind that barrier wasnt my mother. She was a stranger to me. With hardly a sound the group shuffled down the corridor, amelia held my hand while we walked. This isnt the end for you, she said as she tried to reassure me. As devastated as i was for my mom i was more scared for myself. Outside amelia peered out over the lot trying to recall where she parked her camery. A few hundred feet away a white police man pulls occupy. Amelia and i exchanged a look. Seconds later two guards herded some inmates out in the curb. My mother was among them. Just as my mother was stepping into the paddy wagon she turned around and caught a glimpse of me. She froze. I could tell she wanted to Say Something, to run to me, but before she could make a move a guard rushed her into the van, lets go, he snapped. The engine rumbled on. From her seat in the rear, mommy twisted herself around so she could see me through the bars on the windows. She was trying to tell me something but i couldnt figure out what it was. Then all at once, i understood. I love you. She was mouthing. I love you. I love you. I love you. She repeated the three words until the van turned from the lot and disappeared. I smiled and that was the only thing i could be sure of that my mother loved me. Fukk anyone who tried to come between us. That was me in my teenage years. The summer i lost my parents it was the strangest heartache. No flowers sent, no Memorial Service planned, and yet the two people i cherished the most were gone. Not from the world itself but gone from me. We would find a way to move forward and carry on. Just not with the promise of one anothers presence. Thank you. [applause] sorry if there were any children in the audience for the fword. One of the things that i think is not well understood among the latino immigrant community is the extent of the divisions that the immigration experience has on families. In my work as a reporter for the Baltimore Sun i spent 68 months at Paterson High School in east baltimore and wrote a series about those profiling of three students. One was a latino boy. Again and again during the reporting experience i heard particularly the boys, the undocuments boys, who made it kroos the border told stories about their mothers or fathers disappearing from them. Usually their parents didnt tell them they were going to leave honduras or el salvadore. They left in the middle of the night or while they were at school and couldnt bear to say goodbye to their children so they left. In one case, one of the boys came home from school and realized his mother was gone and everyone was crying and he could not figure it out. In another case, a boy told me he was told his mother was going to just take a bus to another town but he knew something was wrong and he ran with all of his might to see her before she got on the bus and he did just barely glimpse her leaving and she was crying and he was crying and he didnt see her for eight years. That happens so often, i think. When the kids are reunited you would think oh, my, gosh, this is the most wonderful thing in the world to be reunited with my mom who i havent seen but in fact it is terribly difficult because you dont really know them. They are really strangers to you. This is such a problem in the latino immigrant community that the teachers have started developing curriculum that helps parents and their children who they have been apart from for a long time reunite because until you reunite you cannot really move on in many ways in your new country. So i think dianes story is a little different but a twist on the same theme of having years and years apart and not being able to communicate in a real way and having to separate. I would ask you to tell a little bit about that separation and what it did for you and your in sight. I figured out all that i knew was that i needed my education and what my parents taught me if you work really hard youll make something out of yourself and that is what i believed as a kid growing up in the states where i could do that. I knew that i could do that here in the resource will. It i could make something happen. And what that relationship would be with my full san for some reason i thought in that we would figure that out but it is a huge strain on us and on our e emotional life and and the psychological impact it would have on me and wanted to talk about that in the book with the strange relationship in the effects it has on a family. To be separated by that nobody talks about the psychological pity bushel damage because nobody sees this, really come on the news or politicians you never hear it as a human issue. It is all political but it is important to realize these are real people and real families and there are really facts and i was lucky enough to come back from that but i was in a very deep hole for very long time. I didnt speak to my parents or see them for maybe eight years because the pain was too much i didnt know how to handle that i would go back to colombia and visit them and i did not know what to do because i was growing and they were growing there my parents they will stay the same that they grow to a change. Your mother obsoleted not give but she kept calling and calling and calling and calling and like a teenager said he will not deal with her. I did not know how to handle as i had to separate myself pro i feel like sometimes i feel like that gave me lakes to continue provided the best that i could. I always looked at you. I didnt know how to be an adult in and handle things correctly so i did the best that i could and shutting down was the only way i could move forward. It took me just tell a few years ago, my family relationship even still i have to work at it every day my mom was this debbie yesterday for something for not being responsive be enough for showing her the motion that she wanted from me so it is work every day and yes it is being apart but is still a relationship that i wish we could get back industry and but you have to do the best that you kiev. Were talking about technology and how that has played a huge part in reconnecting an obviously my work has helped my mind and my heart keelhaul so i could accept my life and our relationship the way it is for what it is. And you have to adjust obviously so i could help others and share with others because we needed something in my fashion i go big or go home so so to salvage a relationship with my parents and open their hearts. Actually you also to repair this relationship seek to go on with your life in a productive way. Yes. Get was a big deal when you went to see your mom to repair that relationship is. It is repairing everything. I want you to talk about becoming an actress with that brit band perseverance and how that helps you to become an actress and would speak out through a lot of auditions that didnt work out or a long time between work. This kind of work is very at been down every day i get a call on my next move because it is gigabyte gig it is never a sure thing. The reason why i didnt want to take the chance in the beginning because i didnt have that foundation that faith that i know they need to pursue anything you need that support for family members. But they thank you are right at this time i decided to pursue what i really wanted to do, i have to say eff it. Letter they going to say no to me . I already lost my parents so it just totally prepared me for the amount of rejection that i got and you can see that i grew up. But everything that i went through in high school and after. Everything. Going to college was a huge miracle for me. I dont know how it happened. I still dont know. But doing the things that got to do having the support in my community that i got i dont know how it happened but i know i was in need and i needed to be resourceful and respectful i needed a i mean keeping my place to be grateful to others who were helping me on this journey and it all has served me i dont thank you have to go through Something Like this to carry that with you to be resourceful respectful theres usually another are. Resilient. That is a good one. So really has served me. From the time that your parents left until fairly recently actually the fact that your parents were undocumented and deported it was a complete secret even from those you were pretty close to in your life. So i wondered what the transition was like suddenly burying all of this . For a long time i felt my immediate friends the kids that i grew up with new what happened to me. I dont know. Sometimes i felt it held me back first of all, live a very happy person and outgoing so i felt if i ever told this story people would tell me will give me differently i was ashamed. You were taught or from the images on television or the rhetoric you hear that if you are an immigrant you are a bad person if you are deported then you are a failure. I didnt want to share that have people looking me differently. Once things started to escalate things started to come out more and more even now more than ever which is why i was compelled to talk about it but it was an explosion that would hear somebody talk about i would want to Say Something cry was a something bold and people its a word that come from . I would say nothing. Nation of immigrants . Immigration . [laughter] so when i basically share that with people in the way that i did, i felt their response was open and people were accepting and i learned that day that there is no shame in your story or a for you come from or who you are. And you need to use that if you found yourself in a place youre not happy or something is a right and not into those raids that happening right now. There should be a path for citizenship i dont understand immigration is a little foggy i feel like the majority of people dont understand then you decide to be a part of a solution so i felt it was worth it to share my story at that point. There are a lot of things frankly going on with immigration right now. One thing we discussed was social media really changed immigration in this country. Think back 100 years ago people came to the United States and day got off the bow and that was it. They didnt talk to their families except through letters and they took a long time to get there and back. Today the new immigrants that i see like the refugees to have left iraq or any country, are still so connected through facebook and twitter and texting it is great to be in touch with your friends so isnt a way it is a wonderful comfort for them to talk to their relatives or their families that the mother is left behind in turkey with one child in the rest of the family is here and they discuss it at dinner every night they have dinner together over scape but they cannot unite which is a wonderful thing in one sense but in another it can be horribly debilitating. The kit you can never leave your country behind. I profiled a the iraqi girl of her fiance was in baghdad for the first yearandahalf she was here, she was constantly faced with messaging him dozens of times every day she finally had broken off with him that sense that i cannot go on with my life here. It is a wonderful thing to be in touch with your parents but also it can be a detriment and youre talking about how you always feel that people feel you should drop everything when they call. Certainly the way some of our cultures are our parents are everything and you have the responsibility especially this great opportunity to be here in the United States to provide your be attentive but i wish that bug bit me because i dont want to talk to anybody. [laughter] that wasnt funny. [laughter] but if i would talk to my mom during dinner every night she would love that. I am way to american. I will watch tv. [laughter] but there has to be a balance. Still feel the responsibility. I wake up screaming sometimes. Theres so much on my mind what to do so much and for my family but there has to be a moment when you balance and say i have to live for me into what i have to do to take care of myself in order to help others and they did that along major knee in different ways. I didnt have a balance so i would shut people out and say im going after my dreams and not let anyone stop me including my family. Of course, that made me incredibly depressed so you have to find a balance but another thing with technology how easy it is to share information. Like what is going on in the world or what kind of movement we want or what is troubling our society to share information so much faster and that is a good thing especially for the Latino Community to i think now is getting most of their informational or their news online. There is a lot more people back and have an opinion or write to articles who were using their voices. In that sense it is good. We will come first full circle talking about where you see Immigration Reform going in what is your hope for the future . Obviously there is a vast difference of opinion with the president ial candidates. So talkedabout how we could get through this. I think having this conversation right now was a step forward. I think first and foremost, i think in my opinion we need Immigration Reform along with the nations of the groups i am working with. We think the immigration system in this country is outdated a lot of people are affected every year, every day and nothing is being done. The visa system is outdated them the way we handle family separation is not a good thing. I feel there are a lot more people getting involved in actually talking about this issue i still think a lot of people dont know what youre dealing with i dont know the future of Immigration Reform i dont see it happening her gore wish it could happen sometime soon wish deportations would stop and we could have a friendlier conversation brought immigrants in what they mean to this country i hope we could change the culture in which we talk about immigration and undocumented people involved of contributions those communities make their needs to be a clear and fair path to citizenship and those that are here already deserve to contribute to this country legally annulled think any immigrant or undocumented family i never talk to is here to say i dont let documents ellen to become a citizen i feel like everyone i talked zero and i know from firsthand because i know how much my parents love this country and how hard they fought to find a path to become citizens and documented. There needs to be more talk about reform and less talk of division and kicking out and building walls and i am not advocating for people to come over and that is silly to think everybody in the world wants to be here because that is not true but theyre just needs to be a plan for the people who are already here and have made their lives here. Can we have questions now . There is a microphone. Just run up there. [laughter]. My question is about your experience to do a lot for womens Television Soap those are great platforms i know there is a story line a lot of the undocumented. Day you have any input on that those who may be put in prison . First i am so proud to be on to shows that are so social and comment on what is happening socially it think that is my real love it so much because they share what is happening in the world and the stories that we havent really heard so what i set about changing the culture that Television Shows and entertainment so we can talk about them and that is why it is such a huge deal when there was that story line with Immigration Reform and was a tiny little thing a quick mention and reached so many people. You can see that power of what shows like this have and a huge responsibility in the Entertainment Industry industry, to use that platform to raise these issues do talk about them to get them involved and know the power of our voices and actions and participation. I hope more shows can take a look with the response from that i think we do that slowly but certainly these have definitely motivated me to be more active and make me feel like i have a voice and how i should use it to be around so many women who care about so many things and actually doing something about it. Just by typing something for working with an organization and to wintertime to motivate others to fight for something they believe it is cool. My name is alfredo. I was watching the third season in the gorges the new black were looking forward to a fourth season. So i a glad to be here in front of you. Sova want to go back to your personal story. So to come home and not see your parents i cant imagine that that were their systems in place that maybe he would have chosen not to have that support . There were not. When it happened i waited to see if somebody would come or five would get a call no one ever came. I sure as hell didnt want to go i was afraid it would to go to sleep i didnt contact anybody to say i am here by myself we made the decision i would stay with friends but i didnt know of any program or any organization that could help me and part of me getting involved like this to write the book to sit here with you is because i am trying to reach those who are going through the same thing, a child left behind to motivate them to say there are organizations out there and websites and literature you can read and educate yourself per cry talk about how bad is one of the things that we were so scared and living in fear we did not educate ourselves what our options were or our rights or who we could seek for help. So right now im doing my best to express that that there are places out there their organizations willing to help and educate you indefinitely take advantage. C were not staying at home in fear by trying to help your situation and your family. One of the horrifying moments in the book is the fact that vice came and took her parents and then never followed up to say there is a child living in the house and so what will happen to that child . They took the parents and laughed so if you think of a family that isnt as resourceful your parents made sure there was somebody there even from prison. But the idea that the federal government would basically take your eight yearold parents away then not follow through to make sure that a yearold had sponsored care. The system failed you but congratulations on being resilient there is a family i impractical my family and friends. [speaking spanish] i work for a comprehensive emigrant center here in baltimore and i want to thank you because we we like on resources and in december during the deportation and priorities and as a person that works with the immigration and emigration law i am curious curious, how have you tried going to the process to petition for your parents to come back for are they interested in coming back . If so, how much of a headache has it ben and can you speak to the headache of that process of all the people that get in line and how long it takes another thing people are aware. First. Is still with that of the year but i love it. [laughter] if you leave your family. They want to come back and want them back and i am going through that process it is very difficult. The amount of paperwork paperwork, they have to remember all the dates and it is difficult. If yes. I just want them even to be able to visit. My expectations are pretty low but even that is difficult i am trying an old think that will ever stop trying because i love them and i want them to see me grow and i want to see my family when that happens. But it is happening. Every day and is my mother for cry one to go to the garage restore i can do that in colombia but it isnt the same to know that she is in my home or in my country. Which i also consider her a part of. It is very difficult, that process but thank god for the immigration and Legal Research center that i volunteer with have been so helpful and organizations like that to provide all the information i need so i dont have any mistakes or missteps because anyone that will tell you any single mistake you have to start from the beginning and whenever that is, there are so many roadblocks there is no clear path and there is no back of the line. I and the teacher here in the city and i am also an adviser for a Student Organization so what i wanted to hear about is how could it have the School System better supported you . What about the path in our communities the students are affected what is the role that uc and how can we be for them better . First of all, when i was growing up, i had no sort of education when it came to immigration or our immigration system. Just learning about our having to be a part of the curriculum is helpful. New programs are in place. With the reunification. That curriculum is so helpful having an open conversation to teach your students but also changing the language in the culture to know that no one person is illegal we need to change that type of language and that immigrants are even people that are undocumented make up part of what america is. So in stories like mind that many people share, to be open like this and knowing that is a part of our american story just because they were undocumented i am the daughter of the undocumented people does it make me any less american than anyone else. So then we have better conversations corer involving people to be more cynically engaged importance of coding voting for being active in your community with those officials and i dont say that as a Latino Community from syria or iraq, all of us but also american citizens it is important for the entire country for this issue to be addressed for Immigration Reform for the entire country. It is interesting pliocene as an Education Reporter that more and more students the last four valedictorians have been immigrants and if you look at the top of the class in many high schools across the state, they are immigrants. I am traveling so much right now. [laughter] my question is, as a young actress what advice would you give to young latino activist like myself . I have to remind myself every day never to give up you have to know that your work matters and your effort matters and in order to be a part of the solution you have to continue the work even though we get so disappointed. Uc all the programs held up in the courts right now and it is frustrating but we can continue motivating in sharing information and to note that if we give up that is the same as 100 people giving up. Think about the obstructionist in those in the past who have obstructed any sort of bill being passed for Immigration Reform in any other bill where people have fought so hard to help pass and only a few people have made enough norways to say we dont want this and they are speaking for the entire country and that happens from lack of participation and lack of motivation and endurance. We have to keep at it and never stop. Imagine if we all use our voices in continue to be a part of this movement, or any movement all that we can get done and all that we can get we can do. First of all, you are really beautiful. I have three questions. The first is sincere in the Election Year are you supporting any candidate . Second, to romper and donald trump. Kidding. I should not even say that in just. Into your passion about immigration but any other social or womens issues . And the third question is what are your favorite shows . I am getting to the month rose. [laughter] started years ago they had to do something. So the first question is right now the work i am doing is just to make sure its people are voting and participating not like anybody cares what i say i am not sure but i am i just will not save hawaiian voting for. I will keep that private. But right now the role that i picked up was to focus on participation and that is the most important goal for anyone but donald trump. [laughter] but though it for someone and get involved. Eight dash about anything else . In excel many things i am a feminist through and through. I machinist. The other day i was bugging out about the sharks. Right now i am passionate about the criminalization of our people trying to put a stop to that i hate guns of course, there so many things i want to get involved with and and all the causes that i care about it in the future i hope to participate more right now and starting with immigration but i like to live in a way that thinking about interception one thing is not separate from another so might lgbt brothers and sisters there problems are mine and i hope the minor theres i like to think of it like that. In the third question, i am here right now. [laughter] i just finished vinyl but all sorts of stuff. Georges the new black. And zero big deal for cry finished final then i do game of thrones but because of netflix. You better show up now you can watch all sorts of stuff that you missed. Thanks. I want to start by saying that gives me the a lot of what if ive got to go to the paris salon to request that it is a lot of care by ready to request that. This is all my life right now. [laughter] i appreciate what youre doing telling your story it is really cool to see after watching you on forges a new black and have a very serious question i was going through your instagram feed its people to just to posted a picture so the with your favorite sailor scout . Earlier when i asked my boyfriend he said sailor earth had to quickly snapped him. There is no sailor earth. But if you could be any scout or in general . Okay a i am binging sailor moon right now. [laughter] i am wondering why didnt i love the show when i was a kid . It takes like 30 seconds when she turns into sailor moon i am going through every episode first of all, the relationship that sailor moon is relationship quos. [laughter] ive posted mars but then i was watching she is so angry. I think i would have to be a mix i think i am a sailor moon. I have to say just looking at her personality traits. I actually a sailor moon so that will not work out for you. [laughter] maybe sealer mercury in the background. We can both be sailor moon. [laughter] i dont really have any questions i would like to make two statements once a week i tutor in the Public Schools hispanic students setter 78 debtor behind in reading right now what impresses the strength of the family unit. There isnt a lot there very Little English is spoken at home that once a week he comes back and he works with his mother she doesnt speak one word in he is better and i dont know how that happens but just to hear the strength of your mother is impressive and he will be o. K. I do think that but you wouldnt say anything but i will, i am a republican and i am embarrassed every day of my partys nominee. I am horrified. [applause] i hear you. I think it is important to read knowledge that not all republicans agree with donald trump and his policies and i know that. A long time ago there were some cool republicans like abraham lincoln. [laughter] but i understand you and thanks for being here and listening to me am sure we disagree on some things but we could also have a conversation. And in general i think americans want Immigration Reform to see a functioning immigration system that is the most important thing. That is what we dont have. I have a question i will start with the statement thanks for bringing up the fact in your book when you are undocumented still pay taxes a lot of not is put out there that youre undocumented you are working this still paying into Social Security system and will never get anything back the immigrants were all deported that would have billions out of it and it is important to know that my parents are in that similar situation. So things regarding that because even with our story so similar i know how hard it is for you. And i know how hard it is for you all so. Thanks for being here. Day you have any insight as to why it passes but it is like our president i dont get it. I hear you. And why youd be upset about that. Are you okay . Can i had you . That is weird . [laughter] of going to sit down. That is weird