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I was born and raised in Sinaloa, Mexico, specifically in
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the small town of El Rosario, Sinaloa.
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My grandpa passed away.
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It was only me and my grandma, my grandma couldn't take care
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And my mom was here and she offer uh you know, a place where to
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live, where to stay here in the US.
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And that's why I came here.
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My family wouldn't be the only family.
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Unfortunately, I think it's an epidemic that when you're
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an immigrant, what uh usually happens that the family will
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come here and they will send for their kids after they raise
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What happens with that?
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It's that when you bring your kid, they don't recognize you
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that's exactly what happens to me.
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I don't, I don't recognize my mom and I don't refer to my mama's
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ma I refer to her, my mama's for her for her first name because
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I don't see my mom as a mom.
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Yes, I have a couple of we, my mom, I always needed to find a home
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and my home has never been in my house.
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It's always been outside my house now.
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It's my community right now during a political campaign.
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That's my home, everyone and there's my family.
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I mean, I, I don't take for granted my family but a little piece
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of me knows where I go to sleep.
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I don't know whether I consider myself an activist or not.
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I just know I'm a very involved, uh, resident of my community
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For me it's more I'm trying to do what I think is right on my,
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my little space on my city when they told me you're gonna become
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I remember thinking, should I?
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What a that was my biggest worry.
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As I get there, I see a bunch of cameras, I see a bunch of reporters
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around and here, I'm thinking what's happening, right?
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Why are so many people here?
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And then one of the council members talked to me and said, well
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it's the first time in, in the history of the United States
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an undocumented individual being a commissioner.
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A lot of the times when you're in the, at a council meeting and
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then you hear these negative thoughts coming out of people's
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mouths, you know, people attacking you directly and attacking
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your family directly.
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It gets to you at some point, I'm here protesting Huntington
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They shouldn't even be here, period.
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So why don't you rescind this appointment in the meantime
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Why aren't you respecting our law?
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They're trying to impose their Mexican will on we, the people
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those traditions could have been given to an American.
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If you are illegal, you are illegal, you are illegal.
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You do not have rights.
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So I'm sitting home thinking maybe I, I should resign after
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seeing so much opposition, maybe I really don't deserve to
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But then when you become silent about the things that matter
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It's not fair for my family and it's not fair for my people.
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I mean, because this means so much for them, it means so much
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for the whole community and very few having the courage to
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actually step out of the shadows.
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And you're telling, no, I'm a coward.
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I can do it that I wasn't going to allow that to happen.
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So the next meeting I went, I said, OK, they're gonna have to
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arrest me because I'm not leaving until I take my oath.
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By the end of the day when you go home to your family is remember
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one thing tomorrow, the sun will shine and you have to go out
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there and be the best person that you can because at the end
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of the day, what matters is they are at home.
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It's called Earth and our family is called.
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