00:05Being an immigrant is not a dirty word.
00:08To be immigrant is to be American.
00:13It's disheartening for people to deny my American identity
00:16because they're in a way denying the last 17 years of my life.
00:24I don't have everything that I want to have,
00:27but at least I'm seeing where I'm going.
00:32America felt me, my freedom, my safety.
00:36They helped me to make my dream true, to make my dreams real.
00:44This is the place where I get to understand who I am,
00:49what my purpose is, and live out that purpose.
00:52America represents a new beginning.
00:54This is Behind the Headlines.
