on the receiving end of this hatred. which presumably has been out there in the past, but it just feels like trump has given a license for these people to come out of the woodwork and to express their views more openly in a way they did not do before. >> when you came here, you didn't speak english. do you have memories of at that very young age trying to assimilate what it felt like? >> i was somebody who was eager to assimilate i, you know, wanted to shed my foreign identity and become an american. and as a result of that, you know, for better for worse, i don't speak russian today. i don't have any real ties to russia. i mean, i feel very american. i feel this is the only country i've ever known. and yet at the same time, i'm just taken aback by understanding that there's 800,000 d.r.e.a.m.ers out there, and for them it's also the only country they have ever known. and it just -- you know, it's very chilling for me to try to put myself into their shoes and think about what would happen in my case. i mean, i'm 48 years old. what happens if i get deported