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- [Adonis] Most people don't know who they're talking about
when they're talking about the 11 million
undocumented immigrants.
They need to see our faces
to remind themselves that we're just like them.
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- We just drive by,
we stop in a location,
we plug the truck,
set up everything inside,
and in a matter of minutes,
people can go into the truck,
take their picture in the photo booth,
and it gets printed.
Once it's printed,
we start placing them on a wall nearby,
on the ground like this.
In 10 years of the project,
we printed more than 400,000 portraits,
and people from 138 countries in the world
use our platform to stand for
what they believe in their own community.
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This is our third tour related to immigration issues.
Our idea here is to create pathways for citizenship
so they can legally become part of the country.
- The 11 million immigrants
that need a pathway to citizenship are your neighbors.
They're your classmates, your coworkers.
They are people like you and me.
They are no different.
I remember being eight years old,
knowing that I wasn't documented.
And I remember every time my mom came home late from work,
I would panic.
I would worry that she had been detained by ICE,
possibly deported.
DACA depends on the whims of the president
and on the whims of the courts.
And that's why right now,
we are fighting for a permanent solution.
An actual bill that will create a pathway
to citizenship for dreamers,
for TPS families,
and for essential workers
and their loved ones.
Today we have with us a testimony
from a young woman,
very brave,
who was going to tell us what it's like
when your family gets separated by deportation.
- In 2014, my father was racially profiled and deported.
I was only five years old.
And then in 2018,
my mother and an aunt and uncle were deported.
I was only nine years old.
I was scared and depressed.
When my father was deported,
I asked myself until recently,
did I not cry enough?
Did they not know how much it was gonna hurt me?
- It's time to stop fear-mongering about immigrants
and actually pass a solution in Congress.
The budget reconciliation process is the best path forward
for us to pass a pathway to citizenship.
Every time that we get close to passing
a pathway to citizenship,
anti-immigrant politicians come up with another excuse
not to allow it.
It is way overdue,
and we're tired of excuses.
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- I love to see things like this in the community.
I think we need more stuff like this.
- It's really eye-opening,
because you get to see all of the different faces
that are involved with the community.
- But this one I think hits a little more home.
So my parents are from former Yugoslavia.
So I'm a first-generation American,
and just like hearing the stories
that my dad constantly used to tell us as children,
about how hard it for him to get here.
- I have a lot of friends, you know,
that are from Africa,
and it's been a struggle for them to constantly,
you know, reclaim their citizenship and their space.
Representation is everything
when it comes to being able to be a voice for people
that actually needs that voice.
- Art is such a neutral language
that speaks to anyone
that's much easier for you
to get involved with a message
and then you process it yourself
and you change yourself.
And by changing yourself,
you can change the world.
- These are the people that brought the country
out of the pandemic.
The least our country can do right now
to show the gratitude is to allow them
to have a pathway to become US citizens.
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