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Carla Cornejo via Vicencio's new book, The Undocumented Americans, isn't about dreamers, she makes clear at the outset.

It's not trying to be an inspirational narrative of hopeful immigrants.

Quote, I wanted to tell the stories of people who work as day laborers, she writes,

housekeepers, construction workers, dog walkers, delivery men, people who don't inspire hashtags or

t-shirts. But I wanted to learn about them as the weirdos we all are outside of our jobs.

Cornejo Villa Vicencio has been a music writer since her teens and was among the first undocumented students to graduate from Harvard.

Carla Cornejo via Vicentio, thanks for joining us.

Thank you for having me.

You emphasize that you want to present a different narrative about undocumented people.

Why? Where did that desire come from? Well, I had grown up witnessing, you know,

various representations of undocumented people in media, in television, film, and then I went to

graduate school where I read an entire body of work of migrant literature

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