Q: How Do We Make America What America Must Become?

ADRIAN REYNA

Strategy Director, United We Dream

I was born in Mexico, and grew up undocumented and queer in Texas. My whole life, I was taught that I would overcome the struggle of being undocumented by having a piece of paper saying I belong in this country. This is false. As long as there are immigrants, women, and black, brown, queer, trans, and native people under attack, no one can be free--because our liberation is connected.

We must reckon with the consequences of race and class in communities of color, and have an honest conversation about it.

We must right all the wrongs that...

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