He was tired of hearing xenophobic rhetoric against immigrants — so he created an online archive of their stories to combat hate. ️
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00:00Seldomly have we seen a sizable immigrant wave that hasn't been met with substantial resistance.
00:17Immigrants were being treated in what I consider to be a rather disrespectful and dishonest way.
00:24I decided to sort of give people access to those dinner table conversations that I had grown up around.
00:38I realized that I became the woman that I was and had become only the third Latina to win Miss USA because of my mother.
00:47Because of the way she raised me and because of what she taught me about loyalty and about family and about being who you want to be.
01:08At the end of the day, we all want exactly the same thing.
01:11We want a brighter future for ourselves. We want to be able to raise our children in relative peace and give them an opportunity to perhaps go beyond what we've been able to accomplish ourselves.
01:28The xenophobic rhetoric has escalated rather than decreased.
01:32And despite the fact that history shows us that immigrants have been very good for this country and their contributions in the areas of art and literature and science and the military have literally helped form the country that we all enjoy today.