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The way I define like being punk myself is that you understand that your accomplishments are not just your accomplishments.

You understand that you belong to a community. You understand that the world is a system.

You understand that the food on your table came from somewhere

and you can envision the last hands that touched the food before they,

you know, entered the package that you just opened. And that it's kind of like you're haunted.

Like you're haunted by your relationship to all of the people in this world,

and you act accordingly.

That's Carla Cornelho Villavicencio, author of the new book, The Undocumented Americans.

I could tell you about Carla how she's a gifted writer or a Harvard grad,

but she'd probably hate all that. That's part of why she wrote this book to tell her about Carla, how she's a gifted writer or a Harvard grad, but she'd probably

hate all that. That's part of why she wrote this book to tell her own story, in her own words,

and to complicate a narrative about what it means to live in the U.S. as an undocumented immigrant.

This book was a long time coming. Why write it now? Well, it wasn't a long time coming because

I didn't want to write it. It was like I kind of felt like my parents came to this country

to, for me to have a better life and not to dwell in the migrancy of my life.

Like, I wouldn't have been an immigration lawyer.

You know, that didn't feel like the proper repayment for my parents' sacrifices.

It wasn't far enough away from their migration.

And I felt like a proper repayment, And that's how I thought of my life.

That's how I still think of my life for their migration.

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