WEBVTT 00:00:03.002 --> 00:00:04.471 Narrator: Tonight on 30 days: 00:00:07.340 --> 00:00:09.509 a patriotic minuteman vigilante 00:00:09.509 --> 00:00:11.978 who patrols the U.S. border to keep it secure, 00:00:11.978 --> 00:00:13.880 Man: Bigfoot, this is Zulu. Do you copy? 00:00:13.880 --> 00:00:16.049 moves in with a family of illegal immigrants 00:00:16.049 --> 00:00:17.784 in the heart of Los Angeles. 00:00:17.784 --> 00:00:20.553 Man: You're an illegal alien and you are telling me where to go. 00:00:20.553 --> 00:00:22.055 You are causing problems. 00:00:22.055 --> 00:00:24.758 Narrator: Will he hold on to his belief that illegal immigrants 00:00:24.758 --> 00:00:27.093 are a plague on the nation that needs to be removed. 00:00:27.093 --> 00:00:29.996 Man: I do not give up my God damn country for nobody. 00:00:29.996 --> 00:00:31.564 Narrator: Or will he come to see them as equals 00:00:31.564 --> 00:00:33.400 that deserve to become Americans. 00:00:33.400 --> 00:00:35.802 Croud: [chanting] USA USA USA 00:00:35.802 --> 00:00:37.270 Man: They don't mean that. 00:00:37.270 --> 00:00:40.173 Narrator: Find out today on 30 days. 00:00:40.173 --> 00:00:41.541 Give us your tired, your poor, 00:00:41.541 --> 00:00:43.810 your huddled masses yearning to be free. 00:00:43.810 --> 00:00:47.614 Unless of course you enter the country illegally. 00:00:47.614 --> 00:00:49.916 Over eleven million illegal immigrants 00:00:49.916 --> 00:00:51.284 live in America today. 00:00:51.284 --> 00:00:53.553 While they come from every nation in the world, 00:00:53.553 --> 00:00:56.756 the largest numbers are from Mexico and Central America 00:00:56.756 --> 00:00:59.726 having crossed the Mexican border illegally. 00:00:59.726 --> 00:01:01.928 The immigration debate has divided America between 00:01:01.928 --> 00:01:03.997 those who think illegal immigrants should be 00:01:03.997 --> 00:01:07.066 rounded up and deported and those who think they 00:01:07.066 --> 00:01:10.303 should be granted amnesty and allowed to become citizens. 00:01:10.303 --> 00:01:11.704 Crowd: We got this. 00:01:11.704 --> 00:01:13.406 Narrator: Last year, the House of Representatives approved 00:01:13.406 --> 00:01:16.075 a bill making it a felony to be in the country illegally. 00:01:16.075 --> 00:01:18.678 John McCain: The definition of the word amnesty is forgiveness. 00:01:18.678 --> 00:01:20.980 We did that in the 1980's and it didn't work. 00:01:20.980 --> 00:01:23.149 Narrator: The proposed legislation sent shock waves 00:01:23.149 --> 00:01:25.785 through immigrant communities, sparking some of the largest 00:01:25.785 --> 00:01:28.087 demonstrations in the history of the United States. 00:01:28.087 --> 00:01:30.256 President George W. Bush: The border should be opened 00:01:30.256 --> 00:01:34.160 to trade and lawful immigration. And shut to illegal immigrants. 00:01:34.160 --> 00:01:36.062 Narrator: Ever since our nation was founded, 00:01:36.062 --> 00:01:38.665 we have been a country of immigrants offering the world 00:01:38.665 --> 00:01:41.534 a place of refuge and a shot at the American dream. 00:01:41.534 --> 00:01:44.971 But now, more than 200 years later, is that dream over? 00:01:44.971 --> 00:01:47.941 We will find out when a gun toting, border patrolling, 00:01:47.941 --> 00:01:50.844 anti-immigration, minute man moves in with a family 00:01:50.844 --> 00:01:54.781 of illegal immigrants for the next thirty days. 00:01:54.781 --> 00:02:12.765 [music] 00:02:12.765 --> 00:02:14.367 Narrator: We found someone who has dedicated his life 00:02:14.367 --> 00:02:16.703 to keeping illegal immigrants out of America. 00:02:16.703 --> 00:02:19.272 And he isn't afraid to take his mission to the front lines. 00:02:19.272 --> 00:02:22.809 Frank: My name is Frank George. Also known as Franciso Honehim. 00:02:22.809 --> 00:02:24.978 I am an immigrant from Guantanamo, Cuba 00:02:24.978 --> 00:02:27.814 and I am here today to protest illegal aliens from Mexico. 00:02:27.814 --> 00:02:30.683 We Americans are not going to put up with this anymore. 00:02:30.683 --> 00:02:33.653 There is not one American flag above you, I don't think. 00:02:33.653 --> 00:02:35.054 You have faith. 00:02:35.054 --> 00:02:38.258 The patriotic American people you have faced the minute men 00:02:38.258 --> 00:02:40.326 and our state organization. 00:02:40.326 --> 00:02:42.896 Narrator: In 1957 when Frank was only seven years old, 00:02:42.896 --> 00:02:44.797 he and his family fled their home 00:02:44.797 --> 00:02:45.965 during the Cuban Revolution. 00:02:45.965 --> 00:02:48.701 Because his father worked for an American sugar company, 00:02:48.701 --> 00:02:50.270 his family was able to 00:02:50.270 --> 00:02:52.238 immigrate legally to the United States. 00:02:52.238 --> 00:02:54.173 Yet Frank and his parents were forced to 00:02:54.173 --> 00:02:56.276 leave their home and possessions behind. 00:02:56.276 --> 00:03:00.013 Frank: When we came there was no such thing as asylum or amnesty. 00:03:00.013 --> 00:03:02.715 We had to obey the laws of immigration. 00:03:02.715 --> 00:03:04.751 We weren't given any breaks. We just did it all legally. 00:03:04.751 --> 00:03:08.721 I'm very proud of my father and mother for having done that. 00:03:08.721 --> 00:03:12.392 Men: Go home racists, go home. 00:03:12.392 --> 00:03:14.093 Frank: People have to understand that I have already been through 00:03:14.093 --> 00:03:15.662 the experience of losing a country. 00:03:15.662 --> 00:03:18.598 What we see developing here is the possibility of 00:03:18.598 --> 00:03:23.269 extreme civil strife and violence. 00:03:23.269 --> 00:03:26.673 The recent events in Los Angeles where 500,000 have come out 00:03:26.673 --> 00:03:31.377 and demonstrated for their rights is inconceivable to me 00:03:31.377 --> 00:03:34.314 because the only right they have is to be deported back 00:03:34.314 --> 00:03:36.482 to whatever country of origin they came from. 00:03:36.482 --> 00:03:39.619 I can't see thousands of people coming over the border 00:03:39.619 --> 00:03:45.425 every day and not do something about it. 00:03:45.425 --> 00:03:47.393 Narrator: Frank, his wife Jane, and their fellow minute men 00:03:47.393 --> 00:03:50.430 buddies all gather to patrol the border on weekends. 00:03:50.430 --> 00:03:53.800 More than a million illegall immigrants attempt to cross 00:03:53.800 --> 00:03:55.268 the US/Mexican border each year. 00:03:55.268 --> 00:03:58.371 And the seven thousand volunteer members of the minute men 00:03:58.371 --> 00:04:00.540 have taken matters into their own hands 00:04:00.540 --> 00:04:02.842 to try and stop as many of them as they can. 00:04:02.842 --> 00:04:05.011 Frank: I got involved with the minute men after 9/11. 00:04:05.011 --> 00:04:08.047 9/11 was an immigration related issue. 00:04:08.047 --> 00:04:10.316 These men who killed so many of our own, 00:04:10.316 --> 00:04:14.053 set the American people like myself into motion. 00:04:14.053 --> 00:04:15.822 Big foot this is Hulu do you copy? 00:04:15.822 --> 00:04:18.690 Let's break out the good stuff. 00:04:18.690 --> 00:04:20.560 Standard thing when I go to the border, 00:04:20.560 --> 00:04:24.597 is to take my nine millimeter hand gun, take lots of ammo, 00:04:24.597 --> 00:04:28.434 take my Caltech rifle that is a two-twenty-three round 00:04:28.434 --> 00:04:31.137 and I take at least five hundred rounds. 00:04:31.137 --> 00:04:34.374 I take my wife with me, she is pretty tough and 00:04:34.374 --> 00:04:36.776 she's got her own rifle and she is gungho. 00:04:36.776 --> 00:04:38.277 She won't put up with any crap either. 00:04:38.277 --> 00:04:43.750 Wife: Do you see them standing? 00:04:43.750 --> 00:04:45.918 Frank: Yeah, I see them standing out there. 00:04:45.918 --> 00:04:48.087 Narrator: The minute men do not apprehend illegal immigrants. 00:04:48.087 --> 00:04:50.590 Instead they report any illegal crossings 00:04:50.590 --> 00:04:52.191 to the US border patrol. 00:04:52.191 --> 00:04:55.928 Woman: Oh there are more down here. 00:04:55.928 --> 00:04:58.398 Frank: We got about six of them out there and there 00:04:58.398 --> 00:05:00.299 is going to be more so thank you guys, 00:05:00.299 --> 00:05:01.834 you are doing a good job. Proud of you already. 00:05:01.834 --> 00:05:03.703 When I think of illegal immigration 00:05:03.703 --> 00:05:05.571 and the problems that it brings to the United States, 00:05:05.571 --> 00:05:08.174 the fore most problem that I see is that it will bring about 00:05:08.174 --> 00:05:09.742 the disillusion of this country. 00:05:09.742 --> 00:05:11.878 It will tear it apart totally and completely. 00:05:16.716 --> 00:05:18.117 Narrator: Frank will spend the next thirty days 00:05:18.117 --> 00:05:20.420 living with the Gonzales family whose seven members 00:05:20.420 --> 00:05:22.822 are some of the hundreds of thousands of illegal immigrants 00:05:22.822 --> 00:05:24.490 that presently live in Los Angeles. 00:05:24.490 --> 00:05:27.627 Patty and her husband Rigoberto have five kids. 00:05:27.627 --> 00:05:31.264 The two youngest, Ricardo and Karina were born in the US 00:05:31.264 --> 00:05:32.732 so they are American citizens. 00:05:32.732 --> 00:05:35.902 The three oldest children Arial, Armida, and Albanidia 00:05:35.902 --> 00:05:37.537 crossed the border illegally with their parents 00:05:37.537 --> 00:05:39.272 twelve years ago and have been living here 00:05:39.272 --> 00:05:40.973 undocumented ever since. 00:05:47.380 --> 00:05:49.882 The family who come from a small town in Central Mexico 00:05:49.882 --> 00:05:52.285 share a tiny one bedroom apartment that measures 00:05:52.285 --> 00:05:53.986 less than 500 square feet. 00:06:26.686 --> 00:06:29.322 Before he heads off to Los Angeles, Frank and his wife 00:06:29.322 --> 00:06:31.591 have a last meal at their home in Mojave, California. 00:06:31.591 --> 00:06:33.559 Jane: Oh you know what really ticks me off? 00:06:33.559 --> 00:06:34.460 Frank: What? 00:06:34.460 --> 00:06:37.764 Jane: If they are one of the families that covered 00:06:37.764 --> 00:06:40.433 the American flag with the Mexican flag. 00:06:40.433 --> 00:06:42.335 Frank: Well, you know. 00:06:42.335 --> 00:06:44.570 Jane: That's almost like a take over issue. 00:06:44.570 --> 00:06:47.039 Frank: A lot of us look at it, 00:06:47.039 --> 00:06:48.407 and it looks like an occupying army. 00:06:48.407 --> 00:06:49.776 What comes next? Is there going to be violence? 00:06:49.776 --> 00:06:51.544 Jane: Just keep your head down. 00:06:51.544 --> 00:06:52.812 Frank: It could be possible. 00:06:52.812 --> 00:06:54.247 Narrator: To live as an illegal immigrant 00:06:54.247 --> 00:06:57.316 for the next thirty days, Frank will have to follow three rules: 00:06:57.316 --> 00:06:59.952 first, he will have to leave any and all 00:06:59.952 --> 00:07:01.921 personal identification behind. 00:07:01.921 --> 00:07:04.991 Second, he'll have to move in with a whole family of 00:07:04.991 --> 00:07:07.193 illegal immigrants and share their tiny apartment. 00:07:07.193 --> 00:07:10.663 And third, he will be put to work as a day laborer. 00:07:10.663 --> 00:07:14.066 Frank: I am just going to go like I have no identity 00:07:14.066 --> 00:07:15.635 here in the United States. 00:07:15.635 --> 00:07:16.102 That's the way they do it, 00:07:16.102 --> 00:07:17.703 that's the way I am going to do it. 00:07:17.703 --> 00:07:47.266 [music playing] 00:07:47.266 --> 00:07:48.167 Frank: This is East Los Angeles 00:07:48.167 --> 00:07:50.469 but it is not the East Los Angeles that I knew years ago. 00:07:50.469 --> 00:07:53.172 A lot of it looks more to me like I am in Mexico. 00:07:53.172 --> 00:07:57.777 For me, living in with illegal aliens for thirty days 00:07:57.777 --> 00:08:00.713 it is an opportunity to present before the American people 00:08:00.713 --> 00:08:02.315 a problem that is huge. 00:08:02.315 --> 00:08:05.218 I want millions of Americans to get up there 00:08:05.218 --> 00:08:07.753 and do something about this before our nation is gone. 00:08:21.968 --> 00:08:24.070 Armida: No, I wouldn't want a Latino man 00:08:24.070 --> 00:08:26.138 that would like totally suck. 00:08:26.138 --> 00:08:28.741 If he is a white minute man than I would totally understand 00:08:28.741 --> 00:08:32.211 why he doesn't like immigrants but if he is a Latino.. 00:08:38.384 --> 00:08:41.721 Frank: I'm concerned about how they might perceive me 00:08:41.721 --> 00:08:43.155 because of my border activities. 00:08:43.155 --> 00:08:47.827 I have some anxiety of how I may be received. 00:08:47.827 --> 00:08:51.697 Because I am not at all in favor of them being here illegally. 00:08:51.697 --> 00:08:54.333 To be very honest you know, my thought is to arrive 00:08:54.333 --> 00:08:58.037 and then thirty seconds later have an INS bus pick them up. 00:09:00.539 --> 00:09:01.407 Hi 00:09:01.407 --> 00:09:02.541 Paty: Hi 00:09:02.541 --> 00:09:03.409 Frank: I am Frank. 00:09:12.218 --> 00:09:15.454 I am Frank or Francisco. Pleased to meet you sir. 00:09:15.454 --> 00:09:16.322 Armida: Armida. 00:09:16.322 --> 00:09:17.757 Frank: Armida? Pleased to meet you Armida. 00:09:17.757 --> 00:09:18.658 And you are? 00:09:18.658 --> 00:09:19.625 Albanida: My name is Albanida. 00:09:19.625 --> 00:09:20.960 Frank: And you young lady? 00:09:20.960 --> 00:09:21.827 Karina: Karina. 00:09:21.827 --> 00:09:22.662 Frank: Karina? I am Frank. 00:09:22.662 --> 00:09:24.363 Ricardo: Ricardo. 00:09:24.363 --> 00:09:25.131 Frank: Ricardo. 00:09:33.272 --> 00:09:34.307 Armida: So you are Cuban? 00:09:34.307 --> 00:09:36.642 Frank: Yeah I was actually born there. 00:09:36.642 --> 00:09:38.077 All of a sudden I am in the living room and 00:09:38.077 --> 00:09:40.413 I'm looking at the family and its entirety 00:09:40.413 --> 00:09:42.615 and they are looking at me and I could tell that 00:09:42.615 --> 00:09:46.619 there was an uneasiness between all of us. 00:09:46.619 --> 00:09:47.720 How would you solve 00:09:47.720 --> 00:09:50.189 your immigration status problem if you could. 00:09:50.189 --> 00:09:52.058 Armida: I am just going to do good in college 00:09:52.058 --> 00:09:52.925 and I don't know. 00:09:52.925 --> 00:09:56.963 Talk to lawyers and see what I can do. 00:09:56.963 --> 00:09:58.531 Are you completely against the amnesty? 00:09:58.531 --> 00:09:59.665 Frank: Yeah. 00:09:59.665 --> 00:10:00.866 Armida: So no exceptions? 00:10:00.866 --> 00:10:03.235 Frank: I am sorry to say it's no exceptions. 00:10:03.235 --> 00:10:05.071 Armida: So do you feel like a hypocrite because 00:10:05.071 --> 00:10:05.905 you were born in Cuba? 00:10:05.905 --> 00:10:07.173 Frank: No! Because... 00:10:07.173 --> 00:10:08.708 Armida: Because you came here legally? 00:10:08.708 --> 00:10:09.909 Frank: Yes. Yes. 00:10:09.909 --> 00:10:11.978 Armida: We are not criminals you know. 00:10:11.978 --> 00:10:15.614 I am doing fine in school and I know my grade 00:10:15.614 --> 00:10:17.049 adds to this country. 00:10:17.049 --> 00:10:20.152 Frank: By immigration of laws, it is very important 00:10:20.152 --> 00:10:21.487 that we abide by our laws. 00:10:21.487 --> 00:10:22.955 We can't have another amnesty. 00:10:22.955 --> 00:10:24.824 Our government is too irresponsible. 00:10:24.824 --> 00:10:26.959 Armida: I just hope that he questions 00:10:26.959 --> 00:10:28.294 what he really believes in 00:10:28.294 --> 00:10:33.265 and really gets to see what we go through, through our eyes. 00:10:33.265 --> 00:10:35.768 Frank: If I could deport the Gonzales' tomorrow 00:10:35.768 --> 00:10:37.236 I would have to. 00:10:37.236 --> 00:10:38.604 That's the way the law is written. 00:10:55.955 --> 00:10:57.123 Narrator: It is day two and Frank, 00:10:57.123 --> 00:11:01.060 an anti-immigration minute man, wakes up to find himself 00:11:01.060 --> 00:11:02.995 the eighth member of a family of illegal immigrants 00:11:02.995 --> 00:11:06.632 in Los Angeles. 00:11:31.057 --> 00:11:36.529 Paty: Hello! 00:11:36.529 --> 00:11:37.863 Frank: The house is very very crowded. 00:11:37.863 --> 00:11:38.898 There are just too many of them 00:11:38.898 --> 00:11:40.399 in this little of square footage. 00:11:40.399 --> 00:11:41.534 They are a big family. 00:11:41.534 --> 00:11:45.704 Little kids, and kids that are older, mom and dad. 00:11:45.704 --> 00:11:50.709 Very small square footage for the abode they live in. 00:11:50.709 --> 00:11:53.045 Very little privacy. 00:11:53.045 --> 00:11:58.117 Something that few Americans would be willing to accept. 00:11:58.117 --> 00:12:00.086 Who plays golf? 00:12:00.086 --> 00:12:02.021 Riocardo: My sisters, everyone. 00:12:02.021 --> 00:12:03.823 Frank: Really? 00:12:03.823 --> 00:12:06.926 Alrial: My sister Armida, she is the captain. 00:12:06.926 --> 00:12:08.627 Last year she played for the city finals. 00:12:08.627 --> 00:12:10.329 Just because of one stroke, 00:12:10.329 --> 00:12:11.931 she didn't make it to the state finals. 00:12:11.931 --> 00:12:12.965 Frank: Really? 00:12:12.965 --> 00:12:18.838 I think it is my turn to use the restroom now. 00:12:27.379 --> 00:12:28.714 Narrator: Rigoberto supports his family by working 00:12:28.714 --> 00:12:31.217 as a handy man in the local neighborhood. 00:12:31.217 --> 00:12:34.453 By taking care of the apartment complexes his family lives in 00:12:34.453 --> 00:12:36.088 his whole family survives on 00:12:36.088 --> 00:12:38.190 less than fifteen thousand dollars a year. 00:12:38.190 --> 00:12:40.659 Which is well below the US poverty line. 00:12:40.659 --> 00:12:42.528 With a new set of hands in the house, 00:12:42.528 --> 00:12:46.165 Rigoberto wastes no time putting Frank to work as a day laborer. 00:12:46.165 --> 00:12:49.835 Frank: I can see what Rigoberto does every single day 00:12:49.835 --> 00:12:51.504 to earn money for his family, 00:12:51.504 --> 00:12:53.639 he doesn't have steady employment, it trickles in. 00:12:53.639 --> 00:12:55.341 He tries to develop it as he can. 00:12:55.341 --> 00:12:57.610 Twenty dollars here, thirty dollars there. 00:13:00.446 --> 00:13:02.414 He gets paid less than anybody else. 00:13:02.414 --> 00:13:07.419 That's part of the secret of why some people keep 00:13:07.419 --> 00:13:10.122 illegal aliens because they exploit the hell out of them. 00:13:14.426 --> 00:13:17.563 People that hire him are making a killing at his expense. 00:13:17.563 --> 00:13:19.465 The flip side is that an American laborer cannot 00:13:19.465 --> 00:13:22.368 compete with those prices. Cannot. 00:13:22.368 --> 00:13:26.238 That means that Mr. Gonzales keeps himself in poverty 00:13:26.238 --> 00:13:30.342 but also keeps Americans from getting food on their tables. 00:13:53.232 --> 00:13:55.834 Armida: How do you get into the whole minute man project? 00:13:55.834 --> 00:13:57.970 I just keep on thinking about it. 00:13:57.970 --> 00:13:59.872 Frank: Alright, let me explain that to you. 00:13:59.872 --> 00:14:03.909 Armida: You are an immigrant like the pilgrims. 00:14:03.909 --> 00:14:05.578 The pilgrims were immigrants. 00:14:05.578 --> 00:14:06.712 Frank: Yes but I am a legal immigrant. 00:14:06.712 --> 00:14:07.980 I had to do certain things. 00:14:07.980 --> 00:14:09.582 Armida: Were the pilgrims legal too? 00:14:09.582 --> 00:14:10.983 Frank: They were legal in the sense that 00:14:10.983 --> 00:14:13.652 England owned America at that time. 00:14:13.652 --> 00:14:14.987 Armida: How did they own it? 00:14:14.987 --> 00:14:17.156 Frank: Well because they took it over. 00:14:17.156 --> 00:14:18.424 Armida: By force! 00:14:18.424 --> 00:14:21.193 Frank: First it belonged to England. The pilgrims came. 00:14:21.193 --> 00:14:22.561 Armida: And before that? 00:14:22.561 --> 00:14:25.130 Frank: Well it belonged to the Indians. 00:14:25.130 --> 00:14:28.267 And unfortunately the point is that we do lose 00:14:28.267 --> 00:14:29.401 countries by force. 00:14:29.401 --> 00:14:31.203 We lose countries by responsibility of the 00:14:31.203 --> 00:14:32.605 people suffering. 00:14:32.605 --> 00:14:33.505 Armida: It's okay. 00:14:33.505 --> 00:14:36.408 How about you see a family in the border with two 00:14:36.408 --> 00:14:40.546 kids and parents and do you see the future in the 00:14:40.546 --> 00:14:43.015 little girl? 00:14:43.015 --> 00:14:45.251 Frank: I feel compassion and I feel sorry for them. 00:14:45.251 --> 00:14:47.953 Armida: But you still call the border patrol. 00:14:47.953 --> 00:14:49.255 Frank: That's what I am supposed to do. 00:14:49.255 --> 00:14:50.155 I am a citizen of this country. 00:14:50.155 --> 00:14:52.024 I am taking care of this country and I have to 00:14:52.024 --> 00:14:52.958 protect it. 00:14:52.958 --> 00:14:54.159 That is the oath that I took. 00:14:54.159 --> 00:14:55.394 That is the oath that I uphold. 00:14:55.394 --> 00:14:58.597 Armida: Like many illegal immigrants that one day 00:14:58.597 --> 00:15:01.166 shall become legal, they will take the oath too. 00:15:01.166 --> 00:15:03.435 The American dream, oh my gosh, if that's the 00:15:03.435 --> 00:15:06.672 American dream, this nation is what it is known 00:15:06.672 --> 00:15:08.607 for, the American dream. 00:15:08.607 --> 00:15:11.377 And for him to want to stop that is like, it's 00:15:11.377 --> 00:15:14.413 insane. 00:15:16.148 --> 00:15:17.950 Narrator: It's day four and Armida's high school 00:15:17.950 --> 00:15:20.352 teacher, Mr. Young, has invited Armida and her 00:15:20.352 --> 00:15:22.321 family to a local Mexican restaurant to celebrate 00:15:22.321 --> 00:15:24.089 her upcoming high school graduation. 00:15:24.089 --> 00:15:27.159 Armida is an honor student with a 3.8 grade point 00:15:27.159 --> 00:15:27.893 average. 00:15:27.893 --> 00:15:29.895 Her dream is to be the first in her family to get 00:15:29.895 --> 00:15:30.863 a college education. 00:15:37.136 --> 00:15:38.771 Armida: In September I will start college. 00:15:38.771 --> 00:15:42.374 I still don't know which one because, okay. 00:15:42.374 --> 00:15:43.842 My top choice is Princeton. 00:15:43.842 --> 00:15:46.945 I'm waiting to hear from Princeton and my second 00:15:46.945 --> 00:15:49.014 choice is Santa Clara University. 00:15:49.014 --> 00:15:51.583 I applied to a full ride scholarship so if I get 00:15:51.583 --> 00:15:54.420 this scholarship, I can go to any university I wanted 00:15:54.420 --> 00:15:57.890 to so hopefully in September I am taking off. 00:15:57.890 --> 00:16:00.793 Princeton here I go! 00:16:03.062 --> 00:16:05.898 Mr. Young: Well since I first met Armida back in 00:16:05.898 --> 00:16:07.333 the sixth grade and she was wondering and looking 00:16:07.333 --> 00:16:10.769 around, seeing how things were, she has been an 00:16:10.769 --> 00:16:12.971 inspiration to me, she has been an inspiration to 00:16:12.971 --> 00:16:14.840 everyone that I know. 00:16:14.840 --> 00:16:16.642 Teachers still talk about her. 00:16:16.642 --> 00:16:20.379 It doesn't surprise anyone what's happened to her, I 00:16:20.379 --> 00:16:22.948 thank you very much for allowing me to be a part 00:16:22.948 --> 00:16:24.216 of it. 00:16:24.216 --> 00:16:26.652 Thank you. 00:16:26.652 --> 00:16:27.386 That's it. 00:16:27.386 --> 00:16:28.687 It's all Armi. 00:16:28.687 --> 00:16:29.455 It's all Armi. 00:16:29.455 --> 00:16:31.490 I love you, dear. 00:16:31.490 --> 00:16:32.524 Armida: You make me cry. 00:16:39.231 --> 00:16:40.299 Frank: I have been to the borders, 00:16:40.299 --> 00:16:41.967 I know what I am talking about. 00:16:41.967 --> 00:16:45.070 Mr. Young: These guys are idiots. 00:16:45.070 --> 00:16:46.038 They are idiots. 00:16:46.038 --> 00:16:46.772 Frank: We are not idiots. 00:16:46.772 --> 00:16:48.073 We go to the border to see what's happening. 00:16:48.073 --> 00:16:49.074 That's what I do. 00:16:49.074 --> 00:16:50.342 I am not a God damn idiot. 00:16:50.342 --> 00:16:51.744 Mr. Young: You are going to send thirty million 00:16:51.744 --> 00:16:52.878 people back to Mexico? 00:16:52.878 --> 00:16:53.746 Then what? 00:16:53.746 --> 00:16:54.880 Where do you go with that? 00:16:54.880 --> 00:16:57.549 And how are you going to deal with the children of 00:16:57.549 --> 00:16:58.617 these people? 00:16:58.617 --> 00:17:01.120 You're going to leave them here who are the citizens? 00:17:01.120 --> 00:17:02.855 Frank: They have to have a revolution in their 00:17:02.855 --> 00:17:03.889 country. 00:17:03.889 --> 00:17:04.757 They have to fix their country. 00:17:04.757 --> 00:17:07.259 I don't want any American blood shed over Mexico. 00:17:07.259 --> 00:17:09.694 Mr. Young: You're making it once again. 00:17:09.694 --> 00:17:11.864 You're making it sound like there's forty of them 00:17:11.864 --> 00:17:14.299 here and we can just straighten out these forty 00:17:14.299 --> 00:17:15.733 and they are here! 00:17:15.733 --> 00:17:17.336 That's what I don't get, they are here! 00:17:17.336 --> 00:17:18.203 Frank: Problems are problems. 00:17:18.203 --> 00:17:19.037 They are here alright. 00:17:19.037 --> 00:17:20.271 But a problem is a problem and you have to deal with 00:17:20.271 --> 00:17:21.039 them. 00:17:21.039 --> 00:17:21.707 That's what it is. 00:17:21.707 --> 00:17:22.508 Life is not easy. 00:17:22.508 --> 00:17:23.474 Why does it happen? 00:17:23.474 --> 00:17:25.644 Because this God damn government doesn't know 00:17:25.644 --> 00:17:26.545 what it is supposed to do. 00:17:26.545 --> 00:17:29.114 Because their God damn government in Mexico has 00:17:29.114 --> 00:17:30.315 let them down. 00:17:42.027 --> 00:17:44.430 I do not give up my God damn country for nobody. 00:17:44.430 --> 00:17:46.231 You come to America and you keep your culture. 00:17:46.231 --> 00:17:46.832 Yes. 00:17:46.832 --> 00:17:50.502 But you become an American you can treat it in that 00:17:50.502 --> 00:17:51.069 sense. 00:17:51.069 --> 00:17:52.704 But you hit the God damn street because you have a 00:17:52.704 --> 00:17:55.073 problem with America don't go out there with some God 00:17:55.073 --> 00:17:56.608 damn flag other than the American flag. 00:17:56.608 --> 00:17:58.644 Show people that you are for this country. 00:17:58.644 --> 00:18:01.113 America is an ailing body. 00:18:01.113 --> 00:18:04.116 The sickness is illegal immigration and all the 00:18:04.116 --> 00:18:05.551 corruption accompanies it. 00:18:05.551 --> 00:18:10.088 Americans get up and save this country or you will 00:18:10.088 --> 00:18:12.124 have none. 00:18:26.839 --> 00:18:28.173 Narrator: A week into his thirty day experience 00:18:28.173 --> 00:18:30.509 living with a family of illegal immigrants, minute 00:18:30.509 --> 00:18:32.878 man, Frank's presence has made the Gonzales' 00:18:32.878 --> 00:18:34.847 apartment that much smaller. 00:19:01.907 --> 00:19:03.609 To show Frank how she pitches in to help make a 00:19:03.609 --> 00:19:05.944 living, Paty invites him on her weekly trip to the 00:19:05.944 --> 00:19:06.778 recycling center. 00:19:13.018 --> 00:19:14.786 Since they can't get steady jobs without legal 00:19:14.786 --> 00:19:17.289 documents, Paty and her family do whatever they 00:19:17.289 --> 00:19:19.191 can to make ends meet. 00:20:38.737 --> 00:20:41.139 Frank: It was Paty, the wife, who broke the ice 00:20:41.139 --> 00:20:44.309 for me with a beautiful, wonderful, loving 00:20:44.309 --> 00:20:47.479 personality that just embraces you without even 00:20:47.479 --> 00:20:48.480 touching you. 00:20:57.589 --> 00:20:59.324 It is very hard on a person when you look on a 00:20:59.324 --> 00:21:02.060 people and you like them, yet you know they are not 00:21:02.060 --> 00:21:03.328 supposed to be here. 00:21:03.328 --> 00:21:05.631 You know that they broke the law by being here, yet 00:21:05.631 --> 00:21:06.565 you feel for them. 00:21:06.565 --> 00:21:08.634 Ricardo: You pick them up with this. 00:21:08.634 --> 00:21:09.835 Frank: So you pick them up with this. 00:21:09.835 --> 00:21:11.303 Ricardo: Like this. 00:21:11.303 --> 00:21:12.204 Frank: Like this. 00:21:12.204 --> 00:21:14.006 We are being pulled apart in a sense and I always 00:21:14.006 --> 00:21:15.340 have to keep reminding myself that it's like 00:21:15.340 --> 00:21:17.109 having friends that you have not had for a long 00:21:17.109 --> 00:21:17.909 time. 00:21:17.909 --> 00:21:20.779 But you know we are on opposite ends of the 00:21:20.779 --> 00:21:21.747 spectrum. 00:21:25.617 --> 00:21:27.786 Armida: Have you seen those guys on the border 00:21:27.786 --> 00:21:30.222 with guns that are trying to keep immigrants out of 00:21:30.222 --> 00:21:31.890 the country? 00:21:31.890 --> 00:21:32.658 Friend: They are at your house? 00:21:32.658 --> 00:21:33.458 Armida: Yeah. 00:21:33.458 --> 00:21:34.393 He is there. 00:21:34.393 --> 00:21:35.661 He eats there. 00:21:35.661 --> 00:21:37.195 He is there 24/7. 00:21:38.196 --> 00:21:40.465 Frank: Just like they had some concerns about me 00:21:40.465 --> 00:21:42.634 being a minute man, I had some concerns about these 00:21:42.634 --> 00:21:44.970 folks and what could transpire. 00:21:44.970 --> 00:21:46.672 But we come to find out that we are together and 00:21:46.672 --> 00:21:47.673 we get along well. 00:21:47.673 --> 00:21:50.876 They are very warm people. 00:21:50.876 --> 00:21:54.579 After a while it became like there is an aspect of 00:21:54.579 --> 00:21:55.781 family here. 00:22:08.427 --> 00:22:09.761 Narrator: On day twelve, Frank and Armida put 00:22:09.761 --> 00:22:12.597 politics aside long enough to give him his first golf 00:22:12.597 --> 00:22:13.732 lesson. 00:22:14.466 --> 00:22:15.300 Frank: How long have you been golfing? 00:22:15.300 --> 00:22:16.668 Armida: Since tenth grade. 00:22:16.668 --> 00:22:18.336 Frank: Since tenth grade! 00:22:18.336 --> 00:22:22.908 It's funny to me that Armida very badly wants to 00:22:22.908 --> 00:22:24.776 be a part of mainstream America. 00:22:24.776 --> 00:22:28.947 She wants to have this collegiate experience 00:22:28.947 --> 00:22:31.616 where she will be admitted into this big college and 00:22:31.616 --> 00:22:33.985 she can have what rich girls have. 00:22:33.985 --> 00:22:37.856 There is a point where Armida has to face 00:22:37.856 --> 00:22:39.024 reality. 00:22:39.024 --> 00:22:39.891 It's very hard. 00:22:39.891 --> 00:22:41.426 It's very difficult for somebody to get a 00:22:41.426 --> 00:22:43.662 scholarship of the type that she wants. 00:22:43.662 --> 00:22:48.600 Particularly given her immigrant status. 00:22:48.600 --> 00:22:49.501 Hey. 00:22:49.501 --> 00:22:51.002 Armida: That's where it is supposed to go. 00:22:51.002 --> 00:22:52.738 Frank: That is fantabulous. 00:22:52.738 --> 00:22:53.705 Armida: I like Frank. 00:22:53.705 --> 00:22:55.373 As long as I don't talk about politics with him, I 00:22:55.373 --> 00:22:56.141 am fine. 00:22:56.141 --> 00:22:58.243 Just when we start talking about politics I get this 00:22:58.243 --> 00:23:00.512 huge, huge headache. 00:23:00.512 --> 00:23:02.314 Okay! 00:23:02.314 --> 00:23:04.349 Frank: Okay! 00:23:04.349 --> 00:23:05.851 My first time golfing and I am getting beat by a 00:23:05.851 --> 00:23:09.988 girl. 00:23:09.988 --> 00:23:11.556 Oh congratulations. 00:23:11.556 --> 00:23:12.424 Armida: Yeah, I beat you. 00:23:12.424 --> 00:23:13.091 Frank: Yes you did. 00:23:20.132 --> 00:23:20.866 Narrator: After a month of waiting. 00:23:20.866 --> 00:23:23.268 The letter that Armida has been anxiously expecting 00:23:23.268 --> 00:23:25.670 from Princeton University has finally arrived. 00:23:26.805 --> 00:23:27.906 Armida: Where is it at? 00:23:27.906 --> 00:23:28.740 Where is the letter? 00:23:37.816 --> 00:23:40.018 The admission process is a difficult one for students 00:23:40.018 --> 00:23:41.419 and families. 00:23:41.419 --> 00:23:43.822 Your application was reviewed thoroughly and we 00:23:43.822 --> 00:23:46.391 realize that you may be disappointed with our 00:23:46.391 --> 00:23:48.226 decision. 00:23:48.226 --> 00:23:50.695 The admission community has not admitted and I am 00:23:50.695 --> 00:23:54.432 sorry to inform you that you will not be coming to 00:23:54.432 --> 00:24:06.278 Princeton this year. 00:24:06.278 --> 00:24:07.179 (inaudible) 00:24:21.793 --> 00:24:24.029 Narrator: It's day fifteen and the United States 00:24:24.029 --> 00:24:26.364 Senate is debating a new immigration bill. 00:24:26.364 --> 00:24:28.733 Unlike the House of Representative's plan that 00:24:28.733 --> 00:24:30.902 would make Armida and her family felons who could be 00:24:30.902 --> 00:24:33.572 imprisoned, the Senates bill provides a path for 00:24:33.572 --> 00:24:35.340 legalization that would give them a shot at 00:24:35.340 --> 00:24:36.741 becoming American citizens. 00:24:36.741 --> 00:24:37.943 Armida: You know the bill that I was telling you 00:24:37.943 --> 00:24:38.743 about? 00:24:38.743 --> 00:24:40.645 I have been reading up on it and it was on the news 00:24:40.645 --> 00:24:43.815 this morning because right now they are talking about 00:24:43.815 --> 00:24:44.749 it in the Senate. 00:24:44.749 --> 00:24:46.718 Frank: It is a very lively debate. 00:24:46.718 --> 00:24:49.054 Armida: So you really wouldn't want this bill to 00:24:49.054 --> 00:24:49.721 pass? 00:24:49.721 --> 00:24:50.322 Frank: No. 00:24:50.322 --> 00:24:51.289 I would not. 00:24:51.289 --> 00:24:52.057 I would not. 00:24:52.057 --> 00:24:53.024 Armida: Would you protest against it? 00:24:53.024 --> 00:24:54.259 Frank: Of course I would. 00:24:54.259 --> 00:24:55.260 Armida: You would? 00:24:55.260 --> 00:24:56.862 Frank: Of course I would, I would have to. 00:25:22.487 --> 00:25:23.755 Armida: Do you see they are willing to become 00:25:23.755 --> 00:25:26.191 American and what's that word that you use all the 00:25:26.191 --> 00:25:26.725 time? 00:25:26.725 --> 00:25:27.826 To stimulate! 00:25:27.826 --> 00:25:29.027 Frank: If you are going to become a legal resident 00:25:29.027 --> 00:25:32.931 and you are still going to employ and give a helping 00:25:32.931 --> 00:25:36.968 hand to illegal aliens, that to me is aiding and 00:25:36.968 --> 00:25:38.136 embedding, that is breaking the law. 00:25:38.136 --> 00:25:40.138 And of what value are you to our society? 00:25:47.212 --> 00:25:49.447 Narrator: Hoping to change Frank's mind, Armida 00:25:49.447 --> 00:25:51.016 invites him to a candlelight vigil to show 00:25:51.016 --> 00:25:53.184 him the wide spread support for the new Senate 00:25:53.184 --> 00:25:55.820 legislation. 00:25:58.323 --> 00:25:59.724 Frank: What can you tell me about the Che Guevara t 00:25:59.724 --> 00:26:00.792 shirt? 00:26:00.792 --> 00:26:02.560 There is a young lady up there wearing one with Che 00:26:02.560 --> 00:26:04.763 Guevara's face on the front. 00:26:04.763 --> 00:26:06.131 Isn't that a symbol of revolution? 00:26:06.865 --> 00:26:08.466 Armida: That gives a name to the whole revolution. 00:26:08.466 --> 00:26:11.536 Yeah. 00:26:11.536 --> 00:26:12.170 My whole.. 00:26:12.170 --> 00:26:13.104 That is what this is. 00:26:13.104 --> 00:26:13.972 A revolution. 00:26:15.774 --> 00:26:16.775 Armida: You don't understand Frank. 00:26:16.775 --> 00:26:17.876 Frank: Wait wait wait. 00:26:17.876 --> 00:26:19.811 I'm a minute man American citizen and I don't 00:26:19.811 --> 00:26:22.547 understand that all these people that are here 00:26:22.547 --> 00:26:24.516 illegally are telling me that they are here, they 00:26:24.516 --> 00:26:26.518 want to stay here, they want their family to come 00:26:26.518 --> 00:26:29.120 here and that I should shut up and take it. 00:26:30.088 --> 00:26:30.889 Armida: So Frank, I have something for you. 00:26:30.889 --> 00:26:31.656 I have a candle here for you. 00:26:31.656 --> 00:26:32.190 Frank: Nope. 00:26:32.190 --> 00:26:33.091 I don't do that. 00:26:33.091 --> 00:26:33.725 I don't do that. 00:26:33.725 --> 00:26:34.726 I will not do that. 00:26:34.726 --> 00:26:35.760 Don't even offer me that. 00:26:35.760 --> 00:26:36.695 I won't do that. 00:26:36.695 --> 00:26:39.264 No. 00:26:39.264 --> 00:26:40.065 No. 00:26:46.204 --> 00:26:47.672 Armida: The reason we are doing this is like to get 00:26:47.672 --> 00:26:50.408 them some legal status from undocumented people 00:26:50.408 --> 00:26:52.510 that means the world to me. 00:26:52.510 --> 00:26:54.045 It really does mean the world to me. 00:26:54.045 --> 00:26:54.879 You know. 00:26:57.549 --> 00:26:59.017 Frank: We have laws and those laws should be 00:26:59.017 --> 00:26:59.651 respected. 00:26:59.651 --> 00:27:01.386 It's like all of that should be suspended 00:27:01.386 --> 00:27:03.788 because like this is her, she's here and she wants 00:27:03.788 --> 00:27:05.490 what we have and she claims it for her own. 00:27:05.490 --> 00:27:06.958 But she doesn't understand the basics. 00:27:08.093 --> 00:27:14.032 Crowd: USA USA USA USA USA 00:27:14.032 --> 00:27:15.767 Frank: They don't mean that. 00:27:15.767 --> 00:27:16.968 They do not mean that. 00:27:16.968 --> 00:27:17.836 That's a prop. 00:27:17.836 --> 00:27:19.204 Just like all the other American flags they are 00:27:19.204 --> 00:27:20.271 using, it is a prop. 00:27:20.271 --> 00:27:23.141 For their movement for their cause and it is the 00:27:23.141 --> 00:27:24.275 end of America is what it is. 00:27:24.275 --> 00:27:27.312 This is not the beginning of a revolution I don't 00:27:27.312 --> 00:27:29.547 know what is. 00:27:32.751 --> 00:27:34.319 Armida: Only he can change his mind. 00:27:34.319 --> 00:27:35.320 It's up to him, you know? 00:27:35.320 --> 00:27:37.188 He has to like see it. 00:27:37.188 --> 00:27:41.326 And come up with his own conclusion. 00:27:41.326 --> 00:27:43.194 If you are going to be here, you have to be 00:27:43.194 --> 00:27:45.430 willing to take care of this country and if you 00:27:45.430 --> 00:27:47.532 don't understand how to take care of this country 00:27:47.532 --> 00:27:50.368 then you have to go back to Mexico. 00:28:05.216 --> 00:28:07.085 Narrator: It's day twenty of Frank's thirty day stay 00:28:07.085 --> 00:28:08.520 with illegal immigrants. 00:28:08.520 --> 00:28:11.156 And Rigoberto has a proposition for him. 00:28:23.668 --> 00:28:25.403 Frank: I am sitting down in the morning talking to 00:28:25.403 --> 00:28:26.838 Rigoberto and all of a sudden he starts talking 00:28:26.838 --> 00:28:28.740 about Mexico and about this and that and the 00:28:28.740 --> 00:28:29.741 other. 00:28:29.741 --> 00:28:31.076 He says he's got his brother over there. 00:28:31.076 --> 00:28:33.144 Why don't I go see his brother down there. 00:28:33.144 --> 00:28:36.081 Paty and Rigo haven't seen their families in Mexico 00:28:36.081 --> 00:28:37.449 in over twelve years. 00:28:37.449 --> 00:28:39.818 Because like most illegal immigrants, they know that 00:28:39.818 --> 00:28:41.920 if they leave the United States, they probably 00:28:41.920 --> 00:28:44.589 won't make it back in. 00:28:44.589 --> 00:28:46.958 Last year, Paty's parents both died before she was 00:28:46.958 --> 00:28:48.193 able to visit them. 00:28:48.193 --> 00:28:49.828 Frank: Paty, you would like to go to Mexico to 00:28:49.828 --> 00:28:51.729 visit? 00:28:51.729 --> 00:28:53.698 Yes? 00:29:28.399 --> 00:29:32.003 When I saw Paty break down and cry because she had 00:29:32.003 --> 00:29:35.006 not been able to go down there to Mexico and visit 00:29:35.006 --> 00:29:38.076 her mom and dad before they died, I relived 00:29:38.076 --> 00:29:39.711 something from my own life. 00:29:39.711 --> 00:29:41.880 Because I remember my own mother not being able to 00:29:41.880 --> 00:29:46.451 go to Cuba to go and tend to her parents or to even 00:29:46.451 --> 00:29:47.585 visit when they died. 00:29:53.458 --> 00:29:55.059 It's an unusual opportunity. 00:29:55.059 --> 00:29:57.862 One that will not come this way, probably ever 00:29:57.862 --> 00:29:59.130 again. 00:29:59.130 --> 00:30:00.131 So I figured, hey, why not. 00:30:03.001 --> 00:30:04.569 Narrator: It's day twenty-three and having 00:30:04.569 --> 00:30:06.304 accepted Rigo's offer to go visit his brother in 00:30:06.304 --> 00:30:09.007 Mexico, Frank heads south of the border. 00:30:10.141 --> 00:30:12.610 Flight Attendant: The first airline in Mexico 00:30:12.610 --> 00:30:14.879 since 1921 welcomes you. 00:30:25.890 --> 00:30:28.126 Frank: When I see Rigo and Paty obviously hurting 00:30:28.126 --> 00:30:29.928 that they can't go and visit their families, of 00:30:29.928 --> 00:30:30.995 course I feel sorry for them. 00:30:30.995 --> 00:30:31.829 You have to. 00:30:31.829 --> 00:30:35.166 It's just an unfortunate set of circumstances that 00:30:35.166 --> 00:30:36.367 they are in. 00:30:36.367 --> 00:30:38.903 But if they went down here, they might not ever 00:30:38.903 --> 00:30:40.138 get back. 00:30:42.207 --> 00:30:43.575 Narrator: Rigo's arranged for Frank to stay with his 00:30:43.575 --> 00:30:45.677 younger brother Mario in the house they grew up in. 00:30:47.312 --> 00:30:52.450 Frank: I take that this is the place. 00:31:06.965 --> 00:31:10.501 Being inside of Rigo's brother's house, it was 00:31:10.501 --> 00:31:11.236 weird. 00:31:11.236 --> 00:31:13.371 I just wanted to get out of there as soon as I 00:31:13.371 --> 00:31:14.405 could. 00:31:14.405 --> 00:31:17.642 The place was filthy, not because they don't have a 00:31:17.642 --> 00:31:20.511 habit of cleaning it, it's just that no matter what 00:31:20.511 --> 00:31:23.147 you try and clean there, you can't make something 00:31:23.147 --> 00:31:27.318 clean that has got fifty years of dirt on it. 00:33:39.617 --> 00:33:41.486 This is a very terrible place to live. 00:33:41.486 --> 00:33:44.122 Only people that were homeless, which they were, 00:33:44.122 --> 00:33:46.357 would live in a place like this. 00:33:46.357 --> 00:33:49.293 You couldn't possibly last very long. 00:33:49.293 --> 00:33:53.131 My understanding is that the only water supply came 00:33:53.131 --> 00:33:55.066 from up the hill some place over there and it 00:33:55.066 --> 00:33:57.535 was just natural water of sorts, it was not treated, 00:33:57.535 --> 00:34:02.840 so if there was any kind of bacteria or anything 00:34:02.840 --> 00:34:06.144 that would carry disease, they would get it. 00:34:06.144 --> 00:34:07.578 This is not a place like a home at all. 00:34:07.578 --> 00:34:09.112 No way. 00:34:09.112 --> 00:34:10.848 Nobody lasts in anything like this. 00:34:10.848 --> 00:34:12.550 You get out of here as soon as you can. 00:34:12.550 --> 00:34:13.717 First chance you got. 00:34:23.226 --> 00:34:25.129 They made the place a home for themselves but it's 00:34:25.129 --> 00:34:28.331 not a place anybody could really live in. 00:34:28.331 --> 00:34:30.268 It's just a hubble, a horrible place. 00:34:30.268 --> 00:34:34.237 Just horrible. 00:34:34.237 --> 00:34:35.406 It's unimaginable. 00:34:35.406 --> 00:34:37.442 I'm sure that it is pretty much burnt into their 00:34:37.442 --> 00:34:38.943 memories. 00:34:38.943 --> 00:34:41.344 Maybe that's the reason that Armida tries so hard 00:34:41.344 --> 00:34:47.652 to do well in school and I think that this is part of 00:34:47.652 --> 00:34:49.786 the key to a lot of her behavior. 00:34:49.786 --> 00:34:53.991 That she wants to succeed and she wants and tries 00:34:53.991 --> 00:34:56.960 hard to succeed because she has been in this 00:34:56.960 --> 00:34:58.062 place. 00:34:58.062 --> 00:35:03.301 And she never wants to go back to this place again. 00:35:03.301 --> 00:35:06.704 Yep. 00:35:38.236 --> 00:35:40.137 Having come down here brings a new dimension 00:35:40.137 --> 00:35:45.076 into that dialogue that we have quite often when she 00:35:45.076 --> 00:35:48.112 looks at me and she says "I want to be legalized." 00:35:48.112 --> 00:35:51.415 But you know, even though I always imagined that 00:35:51.415 --> 00:35:53.017 they came from a background of poverty, 00:35:53.017 --> 00:35:57.889 until you see what they would be going back to, 00:35:57.889 --> 00:36:02.593 you can't feel the full impact of everything. 00:36:02.593 --> 00:36:05.830 It does bring up a tremendous aspect of what 00:36:05.830 --> 00:36:07.732 they would be going back to. 00:36:07.732 --> 00:36:09.734 No doubt about that. 00:36:09.734 --> 00:36:14.572 That just shows the kind of dilemma that we are in. 00:36:14.572 --> 00:36:18.209 As human beings who have a heart a nd feel for other 00:36:18.209 --> 00:36:20.778 people and you say to yourself, I want the laws 00:36:20.778 --> 00:36:24.048 of my country enforced, but at the same time you 00:36:24.048 --> 00:36:28.252 look at what they are headed to, it does have an 00:36:28.252 --> 00:36:29.720 effect. 00:36:48.005 --> 00:36:49.974 Narrator: It's day twenty -five and the Gonzales 00:36:49.974 --> 00:36:52.209 family is waiting for Franks return from Mexico. 00:37:10.194 --> 00:37:11.495 Armida: I am so anxious I can't imagine, like 00:37:11.495 --> 00:37:13.197 seriously. 00:37:20.538 --> 00:37:21.706 Frank: You can't even really call it a house. 00:37:21.706 --> 00:37:22.940 It was just about the size of that room. 00:37:23.941 --> 00:37:24.875 Armida: How does my grandma look? 00:37:24.875 --> 00:37:26.077 Does she look really old? 00:37:26.077 --> 00:37:27.712 Frank: She is an elderly woman yes but her 00:37:27.712 --> 00:37:28.980 complexion is very nice. 00:37:28.980 --> 00:37:30.181 Armida: How about my grandpa, is he tall, 00:37:30.181 --> 00:37:31.282 short? 00:37:31.282 --> 00:37:33.351 Frank: I think he is about your dad's height. 00:37:33.351 --> 00:37:35.052 Armida: I don't have pictures of my 00:37:35.052 --> 00:37:36.721 grandparents. 00:37:36.721 --> 00:37:42.259 I just remember slightly of how they looked liked. 00:37:42.259 --> 00:37:45.596 But it's all like a vague memory. 00:37:45.596 --> 00:37:46.297 Frank: Do you want to raise the volume on that 00:37:46.297 --> 00:37:48.299 thing? 00:38:33.277 --> 00:38:34.578 Armida: I know that my grandpa is sick and he is 00:38:34.578 --> 00:38:35.880 about to die. 00:38:35.880 --> 00:38:37.848 He looks so fragile, you know? 00:38:37.848 --> 00:38:44.121 I wish I really had the money so I could take care 00:38:44.121 --> 00:38:45.523 of him, you know? 00:38:45.523 --> 00:38:47.892 I just wish I had the opportunity to have 00:38:47.892 --> 00:38:49.527 grandparents growing up. 00:40:02.233 --> 00:40:03.968 Frank: I look at the poverty that they have in 00:40:03.968 --> 00:40:07.304 Mexico and I can't blame them for trying to seek a 00:40:07.304 --> 00:40:08.172 better life. 00:40:08.172 --> 00:40:08.706 I can't. 00:40:08.706 --> 00:40:10.875 I just cannot. 00:41:06.330 --> 00:41:10.034 I never expected that I would feel as warmly about 00:41:10.034 --> 00:41:11.802 this family as I do. 00:41:11.802 --> 00:41:15.372 Never thought it would happen. 00:41:15.372 --> 00:41:16.574 WOW! 00:41:16.574 --> 00:41:20.110 I think, you know, perhaps what we learn is that 00:41:20.110 --> 00:41:23.047 first and foremost, we are human beings. 00:41:23.047 --> 00:41:25.783 That's the thing that overrides everything else, 00:41:25.783 --> 00:41:28.385 the politics and everything else. 00:41:28.385 --> 00:41:30.087 I had a good time even though it was very 00:41:30.087 --> 00:41:31.322 stressful. 00:41:31.322 --> 00:41:32.990 I didn't know what to expect when I walked in 00:41:32.990 --> 00:41:33.891 through the door. 00:41:33.891 --> 00:41:35.159 Would there be a bunch of people there smiling at me 00:41:35.159 --> 00:41:37.628 holding knives behind their backs or what was 00:41:37.628 --> 00:41:40.364 going to happen, but it only took a few moments to 00:41:40.364 --> 00:41:42.733 realize that you are a good, warm people. 00:41:42.733 --> 00:41:44.435 Armida: I think you changed. 00:41:44.435 --> 00:41:45.369 Frank: You think? 00:41:45.369 --> 00:41:46.604 I've become worse, how? 00:41:46.604 --> 00:41:48.205 Armida: No. 00:41:48.205 --> 00:41:50.875 Frank: I have walked the way with another 00:41:50.875 --> 00:41:53.911 perspective involving human beings and seeing 00:41:53.911 --> 00:41:57.514 how close, what happens. 00:41:57.514 --> 00:41:59.750 Armida: Are these minute men people your buddies? 00:41:59.750 --> 00:42:01.085 Or are they just people you know are 00:42:01.085 --> 00:42:01.952 acquaintances? 00:42:01.952 --> 00:42:03.854 Frank: No, they are just acquaintances. 00:42:03.854 --> 00:42:05.789 My only real friend is my wife. 00:42:05.789 --> 00:42:07.958 I know you better than I know most minute men. 00:42:07.958 --> 00:42:10.861 It's a fact. 00:42:10.861 --> 00:42:14.832 Armida: So are you still going to be a minute man? 00:42:14.832 --> 00:42:16.634 Frank: I am sort of tired going to the border. 00:42:16.634 --> 00:42:18.369 It would be very strange at this point in time for 00:42:18.369 --> 00:42:22.239 me to go to the border. 00:42:22.239 --> 00:42:23.040 Armida: I am really going to miss you. 00:42:23.040 --> 00:42:24.642 Frank: I am going to miss you too. 00:42:24.642 --> 00:42:26.543 Genuinely. 00:42:26.543 --> 00:42:27.912 Armida: He is changing. 00:42:27.912 --> 00:42:30.848 He doesn't feel strong about his whole beliefs as 00:42:30.848 --> 00:42:31.882 he did before. 00:42:31.882 --> 00:42:36.820 It really means a lot, you know because it just shows 00:42:36.820 --> 00:42:40.124 this part of transformation. 00:42:40.124 --> 00:42:43.060 Frank: So you know if something happens, you get 00:42:43.060 --> 00:42:44.528 deported or whatever... 00:42:44.528 --> 00:42:45.829 Armida: You will sponser me? 00:42:45.829 --> 00:42:47.564 Frank: I'll sponsor you as long as everything is 00:42:47.564 --> 00:42:48.432 legal. 00:42:48.432 --> 00:42:50.200 That has always been my thing. 00:42:50.200 --> 00:42:52.636 I don't think that any government agent is going 00:42:52.636 --> 00:42:55.572 to have the opportunity that I have had to see the 00:42:55.572 --> 00:42:57.474 kind of people that you are. 00:42:57.474 --> 00:43:04.915 Why not be a part of what helps to bring them here 00:43:04.915 --> 00:43:08.686 legally? 00:43:08.686 --> 00:43:10.287 Narrator: On Frank's final day, with the Gonzales 00:43:10.287 --> 00:43:12.356 family, a letter arrives from Santa Clara 00:43:12.356 --> 00:43:13.490 University. 00:43:13.490 --> 00:43:15.459 This could be Armida's last chance to go away to 00:43:15.459 --> 00:43:17.394 college in the fall. 00:43:17.394 --> 00:43:18.929 Armida: I can't open it, you open it. 00:43:18.929 --> 00:43:26.603 Read it! 00:43:26.603 --> 00:43:28.072 Albanida: Hold on. 00:43:28.072 --> 00:43:28.739 You got in! 00:43:28.739 --> 00:43:31.141 Armida: Yay! 00:43:31.141 --> 00:43:33.410 I got in Frank! 00:43:33.410 --> 00:43:34.511 Frank: Congratulations. 00:43:34.511 --> 00:43:35.679 Armida: Are you going to give me a hug? 00:43:35.679 --> 00:43:37.014 Frank: Sure. 00:43:41.418 --> 00:43:42.219 Armida: You have challenged yourself 00:43:42.219 --> 00:43:44.321 academically, you have contributed to your school 00:43:44.321 --> 00:43:47.257 and local community you show an understanding of 00:43:47.257 --> 00:43:48.592 Santa Clara mission. 00:43:48.592 --> 00:43:50.794 We know that you will enrich our community. 00:43:50.794 --> 00:43:52.796 We have made our decision. 00:43:52.796 --> 00:43:55.232 I am the first one in my family to go to college so 00:43:55.232 --> 00:43:57.735 I think that I am the one that is going to make the 00:43:57.735 --> 00:44:03.240 transition from a regular ghetto kid from east LA to 00:44:03.240 --> 00:44:05.476 a college student. 00:44:05.476 --> 00:44:06.944 Frank: So it looks like you got what you wanted. 00:44:06.944 --> 00:44:07.778 Looks great! 00:44:07.778 --> 00:44:09.113 Not a lot of people do. 00:44:09.113 --> 00:44:10.214 That's fantastic. 00:44:10.214 --> 00:44:12.983 Armida: It's just scary if I do not get the money, 00:44:12.983 --> 00:44:13.650 you know? 00:44:13.650 --> 00:44:14.885 Frank: Yeah. 00:44:14.885 --> 00:44:16.220 I understand that. 00:44:16.220 --> 00:44:17.488 I do. 00:44:17.488 --> 00:44:19.923 I understand that completely. 00:44:19.923 --> 00:44:21.692 Armida; It's really expensive. 00:44:21.692 --> 00:44:23.427 Do you have $40,000 in the bank that I could borrow. 00:44:23.427 --> 00:44:25.195 Frank: You know it's funny I was going to ask you the 00:44:25.195 --> 00:44:25.929 same thing. 00:44:25.929 --> 00:44:28.332 Armida: Do you? 00:44:28.332 --> 00:44:29.633 Frank: It's going to be hard saying goodbye to all 00:44:29.633 --> 00:44:30.501 of them. 00:44:30.501 --> 00:44:32.970 I will do the best that I can because men are not 00:44:32.970 --> 00:44:34.138 supposed to cry. 00:44:34.138 --> 00:44:35.939 But I will miss them all. 00:44:35.939 --> 00:44:40.744 I will. 00:45:43.874 --> 00:45:45.075 I have learned so much from you. 00:45:45.075 --> 00:45:48.011 Armida: Don't forget that. 00:46:16.273 --> 00:46:25.816 Frank: There comes a time when you love people for 00:46:25.816 --> 00:46:29.887 who they are. 00:46:29.887 --> 00:46:31.455 All politics aside. 00:46:51.642 --> 00:46:56.413 It's surprising to meet people that you don't want 00:46:56.413 --> 00:46:58.615 to be in this country because of the way they 00:46:58.615 --> 00:47:02.686 came in and liking them so much. 00:47:02.686 --> 00:47:06.123 What a shock. 00:47:06.123 --> 00:47:09.793 I'll never forget that. 00:47:09.793 --> 00:47:11.862 Never forget that.