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This is the eye of a woman who s a dreamer. a dreamer is someone who had come to the united states when she was very little with her parents but illegally. her name is mayra. i told her not to come. i said, there s a big chance we would get arrested. not only she came, she came with her mother. with daca i have very few months left being able to be this brave and come to the border. it s only an hour and a half later that the border patrol game. everybody got scared. i told them, all right, send him over to me. i was on the safe side. i was in mexico. i was not trying to justify myself. he said, i know, i know. turns out they were watching us the whole time but decided to ....
Allow it to happen. thank you. can you share tea with me? sure. salud. chinese tea at the mexican border. how s that? he went and talked with mayra. when she came that morning she never thought she d be talking to an officer. he told her he also had family on the other side. and they were talking. that made me realize that art can go places. beyond laws, beyond rules, beyond borders. maybe because art is not part of any organization. it s not part of the state. it s something that we own, we the people own, and that s why it goes so far. that little kid say, hey, i m here. i m exist. i m not terrorist. a future, a better future. that s what it means for me. [ speaking foreign language ] ....
Mayra, thank you so much for being here. we heard a portion of what the mayor said at the conference. what is he saying to you as you are in full contact with him? first of all, it is incredibly emotional to be able to communicate with him. he is equivalent what i am in the united states, the president of ukrainian mayors so it was emotional to have 50 of the most common mayors in the country from all parties expressing solidarity with the mayor and honestly any underestimation s of putin was that this would unify the world and also unify the country, which as we know is bitterly divided politically. one is that we stop buying anything that has to do with russia. we continue to continue with economic pressure on russia. frankly he asked candidly for ....
european countries, the e.u. other countries like moldova, for example joining the e.u. looking to see if they could join the west, they wanted to be a part of nato. not sure what to do. it s like northwest washington. greg, you want to learn about covert, go to washington, d.c. [laughter] this is moldova here. there s a section of this country called in 1990 it broke away from moldova. just like your son, crimea, kharkiv, and mayra ....