30 Days: Immigration

Minuteman Frank George, whose goal is to stop illegal immigration into the United States, goes to live with a family of illegal Mexican immigrants in a tiny apartment in the heart of Los Angeles. This is the first episode of the second season of Morgan Spurlock's "30 Days."

Narrator: Tonight on 30 days:

a patriotic minuteman vigilante

who patrols the U.S.
border to keep it secure,

Man: Bigfoot, this
is Zulu. Do you copy?

moves in with a family
of illegal immigrants

in the heart of Los Angeles.

Man: You're an illegal alien and
you are telling me where to go.

You are causing problems.

Narrator: Will he hold on to his
belief that illegal immigrants

are a plague on the nation
that needs to be removed.

Man: I do not give up my God
damn country for nobody.

Narrator: Or will he come
to see them as equals

that deserve to
become Americans.

Croud: [chanting]
USA USA USA

Man: They don't mean that.

Narrator: Find out today
on 30 days.

Give us your tired,
your poor,

your huddled masses
yearning to be free.

Unless of course you enter
the country illegally.

Over eleven million
illegal immigrants

live in America today.

While they come from every
nation in the world,

the largest numbers are from
Mexico and Central America

having crossed the
Mexican border illegally.

The immigration debate has
divided America between

those who think illegal
immigrants should be

rounded up and deported
and those who think they

should be granted amnesty and
allowed to become citizens.

Crowd: We got this.

Narrator: Last year, the House
of Representatives approved

a bill making it a felony to
be in the country illegally.

John McCain: The definition of
the word amnesty is forgiveness.

We did that in the 1980's
and it didn't work.

Narrator: The proposed
legislation sent shock waves

through immigrant communities,
sparking some of the largest

demonstrations in the history
of the United States.

President George W. Bush:
The border should be opened

to trade and lawful immigration. And shut to illegal immigrants.

Narrator: Ever since our
nation was founded,

we have been a country of
immigrants offering the world

a place of refuge and a shot
at the American dream.

But now, more than 200 years
later, is that dream over?

We will find out when a gun
toting, border patrolling,

anti-immigration, minute man moves in with a family

of illegal immigrants for
the next thirty days.

[music]

Narrator: We found someone
who has dedicated his life

to keeping illegal
immigrants out of America.

And he isn't afraid to take his
mission to the front lines.

Frank: My name is Frank George. Also known as Franciso Honehim.

I am an immigrant from
Guantanamo, Cuba

and I am here today to protest
illegal aliens from Mexico.

We Americans are not going to
put up with this anymore.

There is not one American flag
above you, I don't think.

You have faith.

The patriotic American people
you have faced the minute men

and our state organization.

Narrator: In 1957 when Frank
was only seven years old,

he and his family
fled their home

during the Cuban Revolution.

Because his father worked for
an American sugar company,

his family was able to

immigrate legally to
the United States.

Yet Frank and his parents
were forced to

leave their home and
possessions behind.

Frank: When we came there was no
such thing as asylum or amnesty.

We had to obey the
laws of immigration.

We weren't given any breaks.
We just did it all legally.

I'm very proud of my father and
mother for having done that.

Men: Go home racists,
go home.

Frank: People have to understand
that I have already been through

the experience of
losing a country.

What we see developing here
is the possibility of

extreme civil strife
and violence.

The recent events in Los Angeles
where 500,000 have come out

and demonstrated for their
rights is inconceivable to me

because the only right they
have is to be deported back

to whatever country of
origin they came from.

I can't see thousands of people
coming over the border

every day and not do
something about it.

Narrator: Frank, his wife Jane,
and their fellow minute men

buddies all gather to patrol
the border on weekends.

More than a million illegall
immigrants attempt to cross

the US/Mexican border
each year.

And the seven thousand volunteer
members of the minute men

have taken matters
into their own hands

to try and stop as many
of them as they can.

Frank: I got involved with
the minute men after 9/11.

9/11 was an immigration
related issue.

These men who killed
so many of our own,

set the American people
like myself into motion.

Big foot this is Hulu
do you copy?

Let's break out the good stuff.

Standard thing when
I go to the border,

is to take my nine millimeter
hand gun, take lots of ammo,

take my Caltech rifle that is
a two-twenty-three round

and I take at least
five hundred rounds.

I take my wife with me,
she is pretty tough and

she's got her own rifle
and she is gungho.

She won't put up with
any crap either.

Wife: Do you see them standing?

Frank: Yeah, I see them
standing out there.

Narrator: The minute men do not
apprehend illegal immigrants.

Instead they report any
illegal crossings

to the US border patrol.

Woman: Oh there are
more down here.

Frank: We got about six of
them out there and there

is going to be more
so thank you guys,

you are doing a good job.
Proud of you already.

When I think of
illegal immigration

and the problems that it brings
to the United States,

the fore most problem that I see
is that it will bring about

the disillusion of this country.

It will tear it apart
totally and completely.

Narrator: Frank will spend
the next thirty days

living with the Gonzales
family whose seven members

are some of the hundreds of
thousands of illegal immigrants

that presently live
in Los Angeles.

Patty and her husband Rigoberto
have five kids.

The two youngest, Ricardo and
Karina were born in the US

so they are American citizens.

The three oldest children
Arial, Armida, and Albanidia

crossed the border illegally
with their parents

twelve years ago and have
been living here

undocumented ever since.

The family who come from a
small town in Central Mexico

share a tiny one bedroom
apartment that measures

less than 500 square feet.

Before he heads off to Los
Angeles, Frank and his wife

have a last meal at their home
in Mojave, California.

Jane: Oh you know what
really ticks me off?

Frank: What?

Jane: If they are one of
the families that covered

the American flag with
the Mexican flag.

Frank: Well, you know.

Jane: That's almost like
a take over issue.

Frank: A lot of us look at it,

and it looks like an
occupying army.

What comes next?
Is there going to be violence?

Jane: Just keep your head down.

Frank: It could be possible.

Narrator: To live as
an illegal immigrant

for the next thirty days, Frank
will have to follow three rules:

first, he will have to
leave any and all

personal identification behind.

Second, he'll have to move in
with a whole family of

illegal immigrants and share
their tiny apartment.

And third, he will be put
to work as a day laborer.

Frank: I am just going to go
like I have no identity

here in the United States.

That's the way they do it,

that's the way I am
going to do it.

[music playing]

Frank: This is East Los Angeles

but it is not the East Los
Angeles that I knew years ago.

A lot of it looks more to
me like I am in Mexico.

For me, living in with illegal
aliens for thirty days

it is an opportunity to present
before the American people

a problem that is huge.

I want millions of Americans
to get up there

and do something about this
before our nation is gone.

Armida: No, I wouldn't
want a Latino man

that would like totally suck.

If he is a white minute man
than I would totally understand

why he doesn't like immigrants
but if he is a Latino..

Frank: I'm concerned about
how they might perceive me

because of my border activities.

I have some anxiety of
how I may be received.

Because I am not at all in favor
of them being here illegally.

To be very honest you know,
my thought is to arrive

and then thirty seconds later
have an INS bus pick them up.

Hi

Paty: Hi

Frank: I am Frank.

I am Frank or Francisco. Pleased to meet you sir.

Armida: Armida.

Frank: Armida?
Pleased to meet you Armida.

And you are?

Albanida: My name is Albanida.

Frank: And you young lady?

Karina: Karina.

Frank: Karina?
I am Frank.

Ricardo: Ricardo.

Frank: Ricardo.

Armida: So you are Cuban?

Frank: Yeah I was
actually born there.

All of a sudden I am in
the living room and

I'm looking at the family
and its entirety

and they are looking at me
and I could tell that

there was an uneasiness
between all of us.

How would you solve

your immigration status
problem if you could.

Armida: I am just going
to do good in college

and I don't know.

Talk to lawyers and
see what I can do.

Are you completely
against the amnesty?

Frank: Yeah.

Armida: So no exceptions?

Frank: I am sorry to say
it's no exceptions.

Armida: So do you feel like
a hypocrite because

you were born in Cuba?

Frank: No! Because...

Armida: Because you
came here legally?

Frank: Yes.
Yes.

Armida: We are not
criminals you know.

I am doing fine in school
and I know my grade

adds to this country.

Frank: By immigration of laws,
it is very important

that we abide by our laws.

We can't have another amnesty.

Our government is
too irresponsible.

Armida: I just hope
that he questions

what he really believes in

and really gets to see what we go through, through our eyes.

Frank: If I could deport
the Gonzales' tomorrow

I would have to.

That's the way the
law is written.

Narrator: It is day two
and Frank,

an anti-immigration minute
man, wakes up to find himself

the eighth member of a family
of illegal immigrants

in Los Angeles.

Paty: Hello!

Frank: The house is
very very crowded.

There are just too many of them

in this little of
square footage.

They are a big family.

Little kids, and kids that
are older, mom and dad.

Very small square footage for
the abode they live in.

Very little privacy.

Something that few Americans
would be willing to accept.

Who plays golf?

Riocardo: My sisters,
everyone.

Frank: Really?

Alrial: My sister Armida,
she is the captain.

Last year she played
for the city finals.

Just because of one stroke,

she didn't make it to
the state finals.

Frank: Really?

I think it is my turn to
use the restroom now.

Narrator: Rigoberto supports
his family by working

as a handy man in the
local neighborhood.

By taking care of the apartment
complexes his family lives in

his whole family survives on

less than fifteen thousand
dollars a year.

Which is well below
the US poverty line.

With a new set of
hands in the house,

Rigoberto wastes no time putting
Frank to work as a day laborer.

Frank: I can see what Rigoberto
does every single day

to earn money for his family,

he doesn't have steady
employment, it trickles in.

He tries to develop
it as he can.

Twenty dollars here,
thirty dollars there.

He gets paid less
than anybody else.

That's part of the secret
of why some people keep

illegal aliens because they
exploit the hell out of them.

People that hire him are making
a killing at his expense.

The flip side is that an
American laborer cannot

compete with those prices. Cannot.

That means that Mr. Gonzales
keeps himself in poverty

but also keeps Americans from getting food on their tables.

Armida: How do you get into the
whole minute man project?

I just keep on
thinking about it.

Frank: Alright, let me
explain that to you.

Armida: You are an immigrant
like the pilgrims.

The pilgrims were immigrants.

Frank: Yes but I am
a legal immigrant.

I had to do certain things.

Armida: Were the
pilgrims legal too?

Frank: They were legal
in the sense that

England owned America
at that time.

Armida: How did they own it?

Frank: Well because
they took it over.

Armida: By force!

Frank: First it belonged to
England. The pilgrims came.

Armida: And before that?

Frank: Well it belonged
to the Indians.

And unfortunately the
point is that we do lose

countries by force.

We lose countries by
responsibility of the

people suffering.

Armida: It's okay.

How about you see a family
in the border with two

kids and parents and do
you see the future in the

little girl?

Frank: I feel compassion
and I feel sorry for them.

Armida: But you still
call the border patrol.

Frank: That's what
I am supposed to do.

I am a citizen
of this country.

I am taking care of this
country and I have to

protect it.

That is the oath
that I took.

That is the oath
that I uphold.

Armida: Like many illegal
immigrants that one day

shall become legal, they
will take the oath too.

The American dream, oh
my gosh, if that's the

American dream, this
nation is what it is known

for, the American dream.

And for him to want to
stop that is like, it's

insane.

Narrator: It's day four
and Armida's high school

teacher, Mr. Young, has
invited Armida and her

family to a local Mexican
restaurant to celebrate

her upcoming high
school graduation.

Armida is an honor student
with a 3.8 grade point

average.

Her dream is to be the
first in her family to get

a college education.

Armida: In September
I will start college.

I still don't know
which one because, okay.

My top choice
is Princeton.

I'm waiting to hear from
Princeton and my second

choice is Santa
Clara University.

I applied to a full ride
scholarship so if I get

this scholarship, I can go
to any university I wanted

to so hopefully in
September I am taking off.

Princeton here I go!

Mr. Young: Well since I
first met Armida back in

the sixth grade and she
was wondering and looking

around, seeing how things
were, she has been an

inspiration to me, she
has been an inspiration to

everyone that I know.

Teachers still
talk about her.

It doesn't surprise anyone
what's happened to her, I

thank you very much for
allowing me to be a part

of it.

Thank you.

That's it.

It's all Armi.

It's all Armi.

I love you, dear.

Armida: You make me cry.

Frank: I have been to the
borders,

I know what I am
talking about.

Mr. Young: These
guys are idiots.

They are idiots.

Frank: We are not idiots.

We go to the border to
see what's happening.

That's what I do.

I am not a God damn idiot.

Mr. Young: You are going
to send thirty million

people back to Mexico?

Then what?

Where do you go with that?

And how are you going to
deal with the children of

these people?

You're going to leave them
here who are the citizens?

Frank: They have to have
a revolution in their

country.

They have to fix
their country.

I don't want any American
blood shed over Mexico.

Mr. Young: You're
making it once again.

You're making it sound
like there's forty of them

here and we can just
straighten out these forty

and they are here!

That's what I don't
get, they are here!

Frank: Problems
are problems.

They are here alright.

But a problem is a problem
and you have to deal with

them.

That's what it is.

Life is not easy.

Why does it happen?

Because this God damn
government doesn't know

what it is supposed to do.

Because their God damn
government in Mexico has

let them down.

I do not give up my God
damn country for nobody.

You come to America and
you keep your culture.

Yes.

But you become an American
you can treat it in that

sense.

But you hit the God damn
street because you have a

problem with America don't
go out there with some God

damn flag other than
the American flag.

Show people that you
are for this country.

America is an ailing body.

The sickness is illegal
immigration and all the

corruption accompanies it.

Americans get up and save
this country or you will

have none.

Narrator: A week into
his thirty day experience

living with a family of
illegal immigrants, minute

man, Frank's presence
has made the Gonzales'

apartment that
much smaller.

To show Frank how she
pitches in to help make a

living, Paty invites him
on her weekly trip to the

recycling center.

Since they can't get
steady jobs without legal

documents, Paty and her
family do whatever they

can to make ends meet.

Frank: It was Paty, the
wife, who broke the ice

for me with a beautiful,
wonderful, loving

personality that just
embraces you without even

touching you.

It is very hard on a
person when you look on a

people and you like them,
yet you know they are not

supposed to be here.

You know that they broke
the law by being here, yet

you feel for them.

Ricardo: You pick
them up with this.

Frank: So you pick
them up with this.

Ricardo: Like this.

Frank: Like this.

We are being pulled apart
in a sense and I always

have to keep reminding
myself that it's like

having friends that you
have not had for a long

time.

But you know we are on
opposite ends of the

spectrum.

Armida: Have you seen
those guys on the border

with guns that are trying
to keep immigrants out of

the country?

Friend: They are
at your house?

Armida: Yeah.

He is there.

He eats there.

He is there 24/7.

Frank: Just like they had
some concerns about me

being a minute man, I had
some concerns about these

folks and what
could transpire.

But we come to find out
that we are together and

we get along well.

They are very warm people.

After a while it became
like there is an aspect of

family here.

Narrator: On day twelve,
Frank and Armida put

politics aside long enough
to give him his first golf

lesson.

Frank: How long have
you been golfing?

Armida: Since tenth grade.

Frank: Since tenth grade!

It's funny to me that
Armida very badly wants to

be a part of
mainstream America.

She wants to have this
collegiate experience

where she will be admitted
into this big college and

she can have what
rich girls have.

There is a point where
Armida has to face

reality.

It's very hard.

It's very difficult
for somebody to get a

scholarship of the
type that she wants.

Particularly given
her immigrant status.

Hey.

Armida: That's where
it is supposed to go.

Frank: That is
fantabulous.

Armida: I like Frank.

As long as I don't talk
about politics with him, I

am fine.

Just when we start talking
about politics I get this

huge, huge headache.

Okay!

Frank: Okay!

My first time golfing and
I am getting beat by a

girl.

Oh congratulations.

Armida: Yeah, I beat you.

Frank: Yes you did.

Narrator: After a
month of waiting.

The letter that Armida has
been anxiously expecting

from Princeton University
has finally arrived.

Armida: Where is it at?

Where is the letter?

The admission process is a
difficult one for students

and families.

Your application was
reviewed thoroughly and we

realize that you may be
disappointed with our

decision.

The admission community
has not admitted and I am

sorry to inform you that
you will not be coming to

Princeton this year.

(inaudible)

Narrator: It's day fifteen
and the United States

Senate is debating a
new immigration bill.

Unlike the House of
Representative's plan that

would make Armida and her
family felons who could be

imprisoned, the Senates
bill provides a path for

legalization that would
give them a shot at

becoming American
citizens.

Armida: You know the bill
that I was telling you

about?

I have been reading up on
it and it was on the news

this morning because right
now they are talking about

it in the Senate.

Frank: It is a
very lively debate.

Armida: So you really
wouldn't want this bill to

pass?

Frank: No.

I would not.

I would not.

Armida: Would you
protest against it?

Frank: Of course I would.

Armida: You would?

Frank: Of course I
would, I would have to.

Armida: Do you see they
are willing to become

American and what's that
word that you use all the

time?

To stimulate!

Frank: If you are going
to become a legal resident

and you are still going to
employ and give a helping

hand to illegal aliens,
that to me is aiding and

embedding, that is
breaking the law.

And of what value are
you to our society?

Narrator: Hoping to change
Frank's mind, Armida

invites him to a
candlelight vigil to show

him the wide spread
support for the new Senate

legislation.

Frank: What can you tell
me about the Che Guevara t

shirt?

There is a young lady up
there wearing one with Che

Guevara's face
on the front.

Isn't that a symbol
of revolution?

Armida: That gives a name
to the whole revolution.

Yeah.

My whole..

That is
what this is.

A revolution.

Armida: You don't
understand Frank.

Frank: Wait wait wait.

I'm a minute man American
citizen and I don't

understand that all these
people that are here

illegally are telling me
that they are here, they

want to stay here, they
want their family to come

here and that I should
shut up and take it.

Armida: So Frank, I
have something for you.

I have a candle
here for you.

Frank: Nope.

I don't do that.

I don't do that.

I will not do that.

Don't even offer me that.

I won't do that.

No.

No.

Armida: The reason we are
doing this is like to get

them some legal status
from undocumented people

that means the
world to me.

It really does mean
the world to me.

You know.

Frank: We have laws and
those laws should be

respected.

It's like all of that
should be suspended

because like this is her,
she's here and she wants

what we have and she
claims it for her own.

But she doesn't
understand the basics.

Crowd: USA USA USA USA USA

Frank: They
don't mean that.

They do not mean that.

That's a prop.

Just like all the other
American flags they are

using, it is a prop.

For their movement for
their cause and it is the

end of America
is what it is.

This is not the beginning
of a revolution I don't

know what is.

Armida: Only he can
change his mind.

It's up to him, you know?

He has to like see it.

And come up with
his own conclusion.

If you are going to be
here, you have to be

willing to take care of
this country and if you

don't understand how to
take care of this country

then you have to
go back to Mexico.

Narrator: It's day twenty
of Frank's thirty day stay

with illegal immigrants.

And Rigoberto has a
proposition for him.

Frank: I am sitting down
in the morning talking to

Rigoberto and all of a
sudden he starts talking

about Mexico and about
this and that and the

other.

He says he's got his
brother over there.

Why don't I go see his
brother down there.

Paty and Rigo haven't seen
their families in Mexico

in over twelve years.

Because like most illegal
immigrants, they know that

if they leave the United
States, they probably

won't make it back in.

Last year, Paty's parents
both died before she was

able to visit them.

Frank: Paty, you would
like to go to Mexico to

visit?

Yes?

When I saw Paty break down
and cry because she had

not been able to go down
there to Mexico and visit

her mom and dad before
they died, I relived

something from
my own life.

Because I remember my own
mother not being able to

go to Cuba to go and tend
to her parents or to even

visit when they died.

It's an unusual
opportunity.

One that will not come
this way, probably ever

again.

So I figured,
hey, why not.

Narrator: It's day
twenty-three and having

accepted Rigo's offer to
go visit his brother in

Mexico, Frank heads
south of the border.

Flight Attendant: The
first airline in Mexico

since 1921 welcomes you.

Frank: When I see Rigo
and Paty obviously hurting

that they can't go and
visit their families, of

course I feel
sorry for them.

You have to.

It's just an unfortunate
set of circumstances that

they are in.

But if they went down
here, they might not ever

get back.

Narrator: Rigo's arranged
for Frank to stay with his

younger brother Mario in
the house they grew up in.

Frank: I take that
this is the place.

Being inside of Rigo's
brother's house, it was

weird.

I just wanted to get out
of there as soon as I

could.

The place was filthy, not
because they don't have a

habit of cleaning it, it's
just that no matter what

you try and clean there,
you can't make something

clean that has got fifty
years of dirt on it.

This is a very
terrible place to live.

Only people that were
homeless, which they were,

would live in a
place like this.

You couldn't possibly
last very long.

My understanding is that
the only water supply came

from up the hill some
place over there and it

was just natural water of
sorts, it was not treated,

so if there was any kind
of bacteria or anything

that would carry disease,
they would get it.

This is not a place
like a home at all.

No way.

Nobody lasts in
anything like this.

You get out of here
as soon as you can.

First chance you got.

They made the place a home
for themselves but it's

not a place anybody
could really live in.

It's just a hubble,
a horrible place.

Just horrible.

It's unimaginable.

I'm sure that it is pretty
much burnt into their

memories.

Maybe that's the reason
that Armida tries so hard

to do well in school and I
think that this is part of

the key to a lot
of her behavior.

That she wants to succeed
and she wants and tries

hard to succeed because
she has been in this

place.

And she never wants to go
back to this place again.

Yep.

Having come down here
brings a new dimension

into that dialogue that we
have quite often when she

looks at me and she says
"I want to be legalized."

But you know, even though
I always imagined that

they came from a
background of poverty,

until you see what they
would be going back to,

you can't feel the full
impact of everything.

It does bring up a
tremendous aspect of what

they would be
going back to.

No doubt about that.

That just shows the kind
of dilemma that we are in.

As human beings who have
a heart a nd feel for other

people and you say to
yourself, I want the laws

of my country enforced,
but at the same time you

look at what they are
headed to, it does have an

effect.

Narrator: It's day twenty
-five and the Gonzales

family is waiting for
Franks return from Mexico.

Armida: I am so anxious
I can't imagine, like

seriously.

Frank: You can't even
really call it a house.

It was just about the
size of that room.

Armida: How does
my grandma look?

Does she look really old?

Frank: She is an elderly
woman yes but her

complexion is very nice.

Armida: How about my
grandpa, is he tall,

short?

Frank: I think he is
about your dad's height.

Armida: I don't
have pictures of my

grandparents.

I just remember slightly
of how they looked liked.

But it's all like
a vague memory.

Frank: Do you want to
raise the volume on that

thing?

Armida: I know that my
grandpa is sick and he is

about to die.

He looks so
fragile, you know?

I wish I really had the
money so I could take care

of him, you know?

I just wish I had the
opportunity to have

grandparents growing up.

Frank: I look at the
poverty that they have in

Mexico and I can't blame
them for trying to seek a

better life.

I can't.

I just cannot.

I never expected that I
would feel as warmly about

this family as I do.

Never thought
it would happen.

WOW!

I think, you know, perhaps
what we learn is that

first and foremost,
we are human beings.

That's the thing that
overrides everything else,

the politics and
everything else.

I had a good time even
though it was very

stressful.

I didn't know what to
expect when I walked in

through the door.

Would there be a bunch of
people there smiling at me

holding knives behind
their backs or what was

going to happen, but it
only took a few moments to

realize that you are
a good, warm people.

Armida: I think
you changed.

Frank: You think?

I've become worse, how?

Armida: No.

Frank: I have walked
the way with another

perspective involving
human beings and seeing

how close, what happens.

Armida: Are these minute
men people your buddies?

Or are they just
people you know are

acquaintances?

Frank: No, they are
just acquaintances.

My only real
friend is my wife.

I know you better than
I know most minute men.

It's a fact.

Armida: So are you still
going to be a minute man?

Frank: I am sort of tired
going to the border.

It would be very strange
at this point in time for

me to go to the border.

Armida: I am really
going to miss you.

Frank: I am going
to miss you too.

Genuinely.

Armida: He is changing.

He doesn't feel strong
about his whole beliefs as

he did before.

It really means a lot, you
know because it just shows

this part of
transformation.

Frank: So you know if
something happens, you get

deported or whatever...

Armida: You
will sponser me?

Frank: I'll sponsor you
as long as everything is

legal.

That has always
been my thing.

I don't think that any
government agent is going

to have the opportunity
that I have had to see the

kind of people
that you are.

Why not be a part of what
helps to bring them here

legally?

Narrator: On Frank's final
day, with the Gonzales

family, a letter
arrives from Santa Clara

University.

This could be Armida's
last chance to go away to

college in the fall.

Armida: I can't open
it, you open it.

Read it!

Albanida: Hold on.

You got in!

Armida: Yay!

I got in Frank!

Frank: Congratulations.

Armida: Are you going
to give me a hug?

Frank: Sure.

Armida: You have
challenged yourself

academically, you have
contributed to your school

and local community you
show an understanding of

Santa Clara mission.

We know that you will
enrich our community.

We have made our decision.

I am the first one in my
family to go to college so

I think that I am the one
that is going to make the

transition from a regular
ghetto kid from east LA to

a college student.

Frank: So it looks like
you got what you wanted.

Looks great!

Not a lot of people do.

That's fantastic.

Armida: It's just scary
if I do not get the money,

you know?

Frank: Yeah.

I understand that.

I do.

I understand
that completely.

Armida; It's
really expensive.

Do you have $40,000 in the
bank that I could borrow.

Frank: You know it's funny
I was going to ask you the

same thing.

Armida: Do you?

Frank: It's going to be
hard saying goodbye to all

of them.

I will do the best that
I can because men are not

supposed to cry.

But I will miss them all.

I will.

I have learned
so much from you.

Armida: Don't forget that.

Frank: There comes a time
when you love people for

who they are.

All politics aside.

It's surprising to meet
people that you don't want

to be in this country
because of the way they

came in and liking
them so much.

What a shock.

I'll never forget that.

Never forget that.