of john francis o'rourke, father to ulysses francis o'rourke who will go as ufo for much of his life. and from day one, in el paso, and you know this in mcallen, if you are born robert or albert or gilbert or humberto, your folks, your friends, your community calls you beto. that's my nickname that i've gone by for my entire life. born and raised in fourth generation in el paso in a community that is more than 80% mexican-american. as i said earlier, conjoined with ciudad juarez, 3 million people forming one of the largest binational communities in the world, so this is part of who i am and where i'm from and the pride that i feel in representing that community in congress and telling our story from the perspective of a community that was all too often forgotten, no one ever showed up and asked us about border security or immigration or the bilateral relationship with mexico.