your friends at the department of justice and, wow, your name popped up more than a weasel in a pumpkin patch. >> i hope that made you smile. thank you for spending part of your weekend with us. "parts unknown" starts now. good night. quick to make assumptions about places we grew up. i'm not talking about texas. i'm talking about, well, me. and people like me who are way too comfortable thinking of texas as a big space filled with intolerant and right wing white people waddling between the fast food outlet. that, of course, is wrong. but then, i'm used to being

wrong. texas, houston in particular, is a very different place than you might imagine from the stereotypes and the sound bytes of its national political figures. immigrants, refugees and non-white americans have, in fact, been transform iing the cy the, food and culture of houston for years. welcome to america, people. ♪ i took a walk through this beautiful world ♪ ♪ felt the cool rain on my shoulder ♪ ♪ found something good in this beautiful world ♪ ♪ i felt the rain getting colder ♪ ♪ sha la la la la sha la la la la la ♪ ♪ sha la la la la sha la la la la la la ♪

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school. lee senior high, the most ethnically diverse school in the city. >> do those kids get sent here specifically? >> no, by chance. it's very well integrated. one of the main reasons is the strong economic base. >> anthony: more than 40 languages are spoken among the 1,700 students here. many of them from conflict zones where the alternatives were stark. leave quickly or die. often, their first exposure to the american educational system is here, esl. english as a second language class, where teacher garry reed, a 30-year veteran, does his very best to get them up to speed and ready for the next steps. >> garry: do you see these people? what did they do? all of these people, right here,

they came to houston from salvador, vietnam, iraq, syria, just like you. they came, no money, no home, and what happened? >> students: they graduated. >> garry: yeah, they graduated. so don't say, "oh, i can't do it, i can't." you can do it. >> anthony: what part of the world are most kids coming from now? >> jonathan: currently, it's central america. >> anthony: guatemala. >> jonathan: guatemala, el salvador, nicaragua. el salvador is the major one. >> anthony: in many cases, if you were to send these kids back, it's a death sentence. >> jonathan: mm-hmm, yeah. >> anthony: i mean, let's call it what it is. >> jonathan: yes. >> anthony: other classes. math, history, are taught in their own language or in english? >> jonathan: no, no. they're taught in english. >> anthony: so this class is absolutely essential. >> jonathan: mm-hmm. >> garry: now, we were working on personal introductions. who's brave enough to introduce

themselves? >> romaric: hello, my name is romaric. >> garry: hi, my name is mr. reed. >> romaric: nice to meet you. >> garry: nice to meet you, too. now, what are the things you do? what do you do with your eyes? repeat -- eye contact. >> students: eye contact. >> garry: good, good. what about his hands? you can do that. and grab it firm. firm handshake. it's a first impression. stand up, stand up. okay? this is side a. you present to side b. ready? one, two, three, go. [ talking over each other ] >> students: nice to meet you. >> garry: good, good. so it's -- you shake, look in the eye, like that, okay? that's expected. girls. ana. in america, you can do it. it's okay to get a nice handshake. >> anthony: what happens if it doesn't work, if they don't have this? what's the future looking like if they don't acquire language skills?

>> jonathan: they become a third class citizen then. >> anthony: what kind of work are you getting, what are your opportunities? >> jonathan: oh, yes. the service market in any major city is always there. landscaping, valet, car washes, but our students are very gifted. they are talented kids. they just need opportunity to learn english, and opportunity opened up to learn. these kids, when they grow up, they will be part of america, and they have kids, they will pick up on this country, just like i expected to do and what i expect my three boys to do. not because someone forced me, but because i believed in it. i believed in the opportunity that it provides. i believe that no matter how poor you are, how uneducated you are when you first come to the united states, if you have the will to educate yourself, work hard at it, you can achieve. ♪ >> anthony: chicken sandwich and french fries, fruit salad, carton of milk. welcome to america, kids. well, i haven't had one of these in a long time. so what country is everybody

from? >> romaric: i'm from africa. very, like, ghana, cote d'ivoire. >> melissa: honduras. >> moamin: iraq. >> anthony: where in iraq? >> moamin: baghdad. >> bibi: pakistan. >> anthony: and you've been here how long? >> bibi: one year. >> anthony: one year. everybody's english is pretty, pretty good! very good! >> jonathan: it took me at least two years just to be brave enough to open up, you know? no, they are progressing very, very well. you know? >> romaric: mister, do you ever eat african food? >> anthony: yeah, i've been to africa a lot. i have not been to burkina faso, but i love the food in ghana. the food in senegal is very, very nice. >> romaric: oh, you've already been to senegal? >> anthony: oh, yes, fantastic. your first day in school, was it frightening? >> romaric: i didn't know nobody here. and nobody here from my country. so, i feel scared, but step by step, i start to learn english and then start to talk with people. >> anthony: so after school, when you graduate high school, what do you want to do next? >> bibi: i want to be a fashion designer and i want to go to

college. i want to study more. >> anthony: what are you going to do? >> melissa: i want to go to college and i want to study medicine. i am between medicine and engineering. >> anthony: what do you want to do? >> moamin: i play soccer. >> anthony: soccer is not a plan, my friend. [ laughter ] ♪ ♪ pearland is the quintessential sprawl of suburban americana, and more and more these days, this is the quintessential american family.

though the oil is not gone, a massive glut in the mid-80s sent prices into freefall, more or less killing the city's oil industry. the resulting economic downturn and lower cost of living made houston, however, and probably it might seem to you yankee trash, much more welcoming to people with less means. people getting away from bad situations. people from somewhere else. what that means is that now houston, you know, houston is a place where minorities are now the majority. ♪ at the end of the war, jonathan trinh escaped vietnam on a makeshift raft with his family. jonathan, his salvadoran-born wife sylvia, along with his sister kim and her husband, ron, jonathan's mom nina, and sylvia's mom, ayala. so, if you have, like, a, on christmas or fourth of july or a big holiday, how many extended family? how many people are coming over?

[ laughter ] whoa, everyone's laughing. oh, wow, okay. >> sylvia: a lot. >> anthony:: i mean, what's a lot? how many? >> sylvia: 40, 50? >> anthony: wow. >> sylvia: i mean, i don't even see us as interracial until people point it out. >> anthony: well, it's a typical texan family at this point. >> sylvia: mm-hmm, yeah. >> anthony: ayala cooks tamales de gallina from scratch. outside, fresh pupusas are being made on a hot griddle. jonathan's mom nina makes a dish of jellyfish, shrimp and pork, tossed with mint, carrots, red onion and peanuts, dressed with nuoc mam, the pungent vietnamese fish sauce. and mee kang, a rice noodle dish from central vietnam made with pork ribs, shrimp and chilies. very mixed up meal here. >> sylvia: yeah! >> anthony: awesome. [ laughter ] did you speak english when you arrived here? >> sylvia: oh, not a word. i couldn't even say hi. so i learned it literally within a year. >> anthony: yup. >> sylvia: because i had to. by fifth grade, this one teacher miss spikes just made me feel like i was the smartest little

thing in the whole world. she built up my confidence that i could do anything. >> jonathan: you know, we learned how to speak spanish first before we learned how to speak english. >> anthony: of course. so you came over in '78, did you say? >> jonathan: late '77. i was 10 years old. and we literally left on -- i wouldn't call it a boat, it was more like a raft. >> anthony: a raft. >> jonathan: there was a hole in the boat. we sat in water the entire time, just sitting soaked in water. they let us come here as refugees to the united states. we lived in the government housing projects. me, my sister and my brother all were placed in the same category for esl. firswaves boat people the rettment of houston. >> anthony: now what was the urgency to take such a tremendous risk? >>im: parents felte needed to take a chance on freedom and opportunity than to live under communist rule. ♪ >> anthony: ain't nothing more american than viet bayou-style

crawdads steamed with sriracha, orange juice and beer. and gotta have corn, of course, and potatoes, and sausage, and beer. did i mention beer? ♪ >> jonathan: texans, we get the bad rep of that we are not compassionate, and i think that's the wrong portrayal. >> anthony: right. >> jonathan: texans, as a whole, when a crisis comes, are the most generous and the most compassionate people that i know. it doesn't matter you're red or blue, left or right, middle, when that time comes, they are very generous and they will help out. ♪ evacuations are underway

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so things move a little slower around here. maybe that explains this. ♪ ♪ la may have low-riders, but houston has slab, its own car culture, with its own accompanying sound. its own chopped and screwed hip-hop style. ♪ ♪ >> slim thug: this is pretty much, like, one of the most classic signs of a slab. it's the cadillac. see i got the insides custom with the stitching and all that, so you know this is a complete slab, you know. >> anthony: full reclining is, uh -- >> slim thug: full reclining. it's a lay back thing.

>> anthony: houston musical artist slim thug and his friends bone and david called some people to bring their cars over to macgregor park in the southern part of the city. if you're gonna do it, what do you have to have? what are the rules? >> slim thug: candy paint, gotta have these type of rims, these are the elbow swingers, a fifth wheel and grill is mainly, like, for slab. that's what make it a complete, you know, and the music, you know how they got the popped trunk with the custom music, you gotta have that -- [ loud bass ] ♪ >> bone: you hit the block, it's not a bunch of dudes just standing up. it's a bunch of everything. >> slim thug: you know, take the old and mix it with the new, you know what i'm saying. >> bone: these two pink cadillacs are awesome. that's a married couple. a man and woman, and they have their kids with them. these trunks, if they something, that's your autograph. you see it coming, and you see the car and the grill, and you see the two-two prongs, it's like, oh my god, here come,

whoever the guard is of your neighborhood. >> anthony: right. >> slim thug: they're basically like legends in the streets. >> anthony: are all of these, like, are they works in progress or are people constantly -- >> slim thug: i think it's gonna forever be a work in progress. i think that slab, you know, they have to be doing something -- >> david: they're always changing them. >> slim thug: they get expensive, real talk, like, all these cars out here, they probably spent the bankroll on all of them. ♪ ♪ >> anthony: you're not eating pizza hut in the back of that car either, are you? >> bone: really, you're barely see people in the backseats of somebody's car out here. >> anthony: he's shaking his head, he's like, "nobody's getting in the backseat." >> bone: 'cause you got the lean. so you got the lean thing. so that means, whoever back here can't be long. >> anthony: i'm thinking about my lincoln now. you know? maybe, i'm thinking, like, crocodile skin on the outside. would that be alright? >> bone: i'm thinking about pony. >> anthony: pony! >> bone: form a cross, or cows. >> anthony: like palomino kind of a thing going on? >> bone: yes, sir. yes, sir, that'd be fresh.

that'd be evil. >> slim thug: pay him no mind. ♪ >> anthony: acres homes is a predominately black community where many of the original slab pioneers come from. it's also where you can find the legendary family-run burns barbecue, a place not unfamiliar to me. i first came here 15 years ago on some long lost travel program on a network far, far away. founder roy burns has passed on to the great open pit in the sky since last i was here, but his son and his grandchildren carry on the tradition of making some of the best east texas style barbecue you can find around here. it's been a while, i believe last time i was here the grandfather was here back then.

>> slim thug: well you're in the right place for some barbecue, man. burns barbecue. >> anthony: so, what do you do? ribs and brisket or uh -- >> slim thug: i do all of that. >> anthony: you do all of it, okay. >> slim thug: all of that. what is that? >> bone: moonshine. dukes of hazzard. bo's hos. [ laughter ] >> anthony: wow. i could drink a lot of that. okay, that's gonna work. a torpedo size baked potato filled with cheddar cheese and chopped barbecue beef and homemade link sausage. slow-cooked pork ribs. big ass beef ribs. and brisket. >> bone: whoa. okay, i got a baked potato. >> anthony: this baked potato is yours. >> bone: it's, it's marvelous. >> anthony: that thing is, like, gigantic. my mother always said, "never eat anything bigger than your head."

that is about the size of a human head. >> slim thug: that look good though, i ain't gonna lie. >> anthony: so, everybody, born here? >> slim thug: born and raised. >> anthony: the town changed at all? >> slim thug: a lot. >> anthony: yeah, in what way? >> slim thug: you know, it was like a big small town at first, and now it's becoming like a real city. you know. >> anthony: is that good or bad? >> bone: it depends on what you do. >> slim thug: good and bad, kinda. a lot of the stuff we was really into back in the day, these new kids or these people from out of town, they ain't into. even the music, like back in the day, houston was so independent, like i was selling so many records out of the trunk that i didn't want a major deal. ♪ ♪ >> anthony: is there a distinctive houston sound? >> slim thug: very. you know, the whole culture from the cars, to the sippin' syrup and the music itself. >> anthony: first of all, what's sippin' syrup? >> slim thug: syrup is, it's promethazine and codeine; it was a cough syrup, but then they mixed it with soda out here. >> anthony: why is that the drug of choice here and not -- >> slim thug: maybe because, you see the idea is that everything is so chill and laid back. in atlanta, everything was turnt up. out here everything is slowed down because i guess we're a more laid back culture. >> anthony: so, at various points in your career, clearly

somebody said, "well look, why don't you move out here? la is good. the money out here, the deals are out here." >> slim thug: right. >> anthony: but here you are. why stay? >> slim thug: i tried to go to la, and the people out there are so thirsty to try to be a star that they're fake and they're crooked. you're just like -- i don't wanna be around those types of people. i wanna be around good, genuine people. >> anthony: is houston a good place to live? >> bone: yeah. >> slim thug: great place. the cost of living is cheap. it stays hot and warm; it's never snowing to where you gotta shovel your driveway. and the food is the greatest out here, and the black women, i don't care where you go, there ain't no better black women, and that's what it is. (cheers) what's it worth to talk to your mom? what's the value of a walk in the woods? the value of capital is to create, not just wealth, but things that matter. morgan stanley it takes a lot of work to run this business.

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♪ >> anthony: it's a 90 minute drive uth from houston to the town of palacios on the matagorda bay. and, like a lot of the communities down here, the principal industry is fishing, shrimp in particular. it's also where, beginning in the 1970s as the vietnam war ground to its ignominious conclusion, that thousands of vietnamese found new lives and a new home. to have remained would have meant, in most cases, arrest, imprisonment, reeducation camps,

or worse. so all you want is shrimp at this point. >> doan: yeah. >> anthony: okay. >> vinh: i got two large several, uh, get shrimp and fish. but i got enough feed for the fish. >> anthony: the shrimp you take. >> vinh: yup, big shrimp. >> doan: big shrimp, big shrimp. >> vinh: the small we don't get shrimp. >> anthony: you don't want it. >> vinh: we don't want those. >> anthony: the shrimping has declined considerably since the 1980s, but the bay still provides a solid livelihood for people like vinh who made it out of vietnam on a tiny handmade boat. his engine died, and he and his family were lost in the south china sea for nine days before being rescued by a cargo ship. he became a united states citizen in 1990 and raised his family here in palacios.

so what year did you come here? how long have you been doing this? >> vinh: i have been -- 1985. >> anthony: and what year did you arrive in this country? >> vinh: i left my country in 1979. >> anthony: how old were you when you got here? >> vinh: 21 years old. >> anthony: you were 21. so why shrimp? how did you come to this business? >> vinh: my cousin. >> anthony: cousin, okay. >> vinh: my cousins are living here. >> anthony: right. >> vinh: and i work -- but they told me, they told me that, they've very good for shrimping. good for shrimp, make money more. ♪ ♪ >> anthony: back on dry land, vinh's first stop is the point, the town's general store. it's owned and operated by pillars of the community, yen and bryan tran, who separately came over from vietnam around the same time, met, married and raised three children here. >> bryan: this is my dream. i came here with nothing.

17 years old. first job i had working, washing dishes. so my boss told me and said, "hey, you're a hard worker. you know, maybe one day you're going to be the boss." so i had that thing in my mind. after i get married, i told my wife, i said, "open a restaurant." and she stopped me, and she said, "no, you're crazy!" so after all my kids went to college, they got a good job, i would mention it again, and she said, "okay." >> anthony: aw that's, that's nice. ♪ convenience store, bait shop, quick stop for a meal. the point is, in many ways, typical in the way it is geared towards serving the immediate needs of its community. food for vietnamese and food for mexicans. yen, bryan, their kids jennifer and kimberly as well as cousin tv and his son, donny. all proud citizens of the united states of america, by the way. >> yen: you know, i really feel fortunate we live in this town

and we have a lot of support. when we went to open this store, all my friends said, "i want to have vietnamese food." i know that here you have to have mexican food. so i went and talked to the best mexican cook in town maricela. >> bryan:yeah, this is the, the chef right here. >> maricela: hi. >> yen: yeah. >> bryan: good chef. this is maricela. ♪ >> anthony: the pho here is good. brisket, eye round, meatball, tripe and tendon, just like back home. ceviche made from vinh's fresh shrimp. and, of course, tacos, migas style, with eggs, jalapeños, and tomatoes. the kids who grew up in this community --

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>> anthony: it's saturday night in houston, and at the acapulco ballroom in the city's pasadena neighborhood, tonight is all about 15-year-old evelyn arana. if you're mexican, or mexican-american, or anywhere in between, and you've got a daughter turning 15, you better be throwing her a quince, or a quinceanera, to be precise. quinceanera, what is it? >> elizabeth: it's the becoming of a young lady, whenever they turn 15 years old. >> anthony: if you're of mexican heritage in houston, i gather you kind of have to have one if you've got a daughter, right? >> elizabeth: in houston, yes. >> anthony: in houston, yes. >> elizabeth: it is an honor to have a quinceanera, and for your parents to be able to give you one. ♪ >> anthony: the quinceanera business is a multimillion dollar a year industry around here.

the competition is fierce. it is a big deal, is what i'm saying, and the style and budget can vary enormously depending on means and ambition. friends, relatives and neighbors gather to eat, drink, dance, and acapulco owners elizabeth and ezequiel ortuno are keeping a close eye on the action making sure everything goes according to plan. who gets invited to these things? i mean, this is a lot of people. i don't have this many friends. >> elizabeth: friends and family. >> eziquiel: friends and families and from the school, too. >> elizabeth: yes. >> anthony: right. oh, so you gotta invite all the girl's friends from school? do you have kids? >> elizabeth: yes. >> anthony: any girls? >> elizabeth: four girls. >> anthony: four girls, so they all had these? >> elizabeth: all of them have had their quinceaneras, and a couple of them have had their sweet 16s. >> anthony: you get a quinceanera and a sweet 16? >> elizabeth: yes. >> anthony: oh, my god! i was really happy about having a girl, but it's expensive! what do boys get? >> elizabeth: a soccer ball. >> anthony: yeah, that's -- that's cost effective. [ laughter ]

♪ i have been in houston for roughly 20 years. there's nowhere i have been in the state that you can just walk through any neighborhood and find people who you probably have never met from other countries, from malaysia to mexicans to savl doer, brazil, you have them all here.

>> what do we eat here? >> you enrolled in culinary school right out of high school. >> yes, my step grandfather was a baker. it was common to play with flour. for me to earn the flour, i had had to clean up or arrange the eggs or whatever he had me do. i had an epiphany because i realized i have been around food my whole life. i just never realized this place right here has been around here for 20 years. i remember coming here when i was super young. but it hasn't changed. >> we are at a family-run spot that serves traditional mexican and tex-mex dishes.

eggs mixed with fried tortillas like a mexican frittata. and marinated beef that's been pounded, rubbed with spices and dried and shredded. so so far any way, houston in particular, has been not just welcoming, but on social services in a big way to people who came over here and atrocious circumstances. >> houston is a welcoming city. it just doesn't care about any gender or color of skin. >> the majority of people under 30 in houston are already non-white. as go houston goes the rest of the country. what this means is sort of a

tech tonic shift in what america is going to look like, eat like, be like and vote like in the future. >>. >> strangely, nobody is building a wall across canada. for much of the time, probably 80% of the people i work with, were mexicans, chinese. all of these guys, they are performing in many cases vital functions that few americans seem willing to do. i don't know. it just seems to me at the very least any society with a conscious is going to find a way to cut them a break. >> the thing is that you cannot

stop people from pursuing a better life. no matter how many offices you have, whatever you put there, it's not going to work. because people are trying to make their family better. whether tough go through fences, you go through them. it doesn't matter. people don't understand. there's nothing you can do to stop people from pursuing a better life. try to read me like a book. but i leave em all shook. because you can't judge a book by its cover. this campaign and this project is all about us not wanting to be boxed in. to let people know that you cant just place labels without learning who they are as a person first.

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>> i'm a refugee from drc. >> anthony: what did you do in kinshasa? >> i did electrician and construction too. >> anthony: and here? >> i was machine operator. after that, i decide to be farmer. it was my dream. >> my dream it was to get my own garden, and what i harvest, i need to cook. >> anthony: where are you cooking now? >> i work at the four seasons hotel. >> anthony: oh that's not a bad gig. >> yeah, yeah. >> anthony: how african will houston be in twenty years? a lot, right? >> gertrude: i want, all my family still over there. my mom, my sister -- >> anthony: and you'd like them to come. >> gertrude: i want them to come. >> anthony: a lot of first generation and second generation african babies are going to be happening here. >> albert: yeah. >> anthony: houston is going to look real different. you'll hear lingala at the 7-eleven? no problem? >> gertrude: no problem. >> anthony: in 10 years?

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>> anthony: the crack of the bat. the roar of the crowd. two teams locked in struggle. take me out to the ballgame, man. though the smell wafting from behind the bleachers is not hot dogs or popcorn or roasting peanuts, it's a hell of a lot better actually. >> kuldeep patel: basically, it's practically like baseball. first international game believe it or not was u.s.a. versus canada. >> anthony: really? >> kuldeep patel: yes, in 1844. >> kuldeep patel: yeah, i don't know if you knew, but cricket is second most watched sport in the world. yes. >> anthony: i, i just read that. >> kuldeep patel: india is number one. u.s.a. is number two. >> anthony: i do like a sport where you can aim at somebody's crotch though. i think that's sort of awesome. >> anthony: i'm not even going to try and explain the sport of cricket to you. there's a ball and there's bats, and i think you run to, like,

base. go out to sardar patel stadium in houston's richmond neighborhood and ask league president of the houston indian cricket club -- >> kuldeep patel: what it's all about. he knows. he was once a big cricket star himself. >> kuldeep patel: let's go. let's go! >> anthony: who's winning? >> kuldeep patel: the first team scored 120 runs. they're chasing right now. >> anthony: i see, so you can't really say cause they haven't had an opportunity yet. >> kuldeep patel: exactly right. >> anthony: see, this is why it didn't happen in america. we need, we like winners in america. we like to know whose winning at all times. >> kuldeep patel: but this is a very high energetic game. baseball, when we watch baseball, it's kind of slow to us when we -- >> anthony: well, even to us it is. >> kuldeep patel: right? it's a slower game. >> anthony: it's really all about the snacks. >> kuldeep patel: yes, hot dogs. >> anthony: but, they're [ bleep ] hot dogs here. and the beer is even worse. now for a hot dog. oh no, right. now for some tandoori chicken cooked to perfection, some spicy, tender, and totally delicious curried goat, and made to order potato masala dosas.

>> anthony: are there fewer rules here? the caste system, you lose that right away. >> it's not right away. you gotta understand because when i'm coming, somebody comes from a rich middle class family, it's going to take a minute to get used to that culture shock over here. it's going to take them about two years. >> kuldeep patel: like, when i got married, back then in the 90s it was like i was supposed to marry a girl from my caste. it was an issue then but now it's not an issue. now, you know, twenty years later it's changed. >> anthony: what about white houstonians, welcoming? nice? >> like, my experience, i moved from singapore. first six months whenever we used to go anywhere and said we recently moved to u.s.a., everyone, "oh, welcome to texas. welcome to houston. welcome to u.s.a." and, like, that made us very comforted. >> anthony: i mean that's not the stereotype. the stereotype is that this is an intolerant state filled with, you know, right wing cowboys who don't like foreigners. not houston? >> definitely not. in the beginning you might feel like texans are, like, not that friendly to you but once you know them they are really friendly people.

>> we see this is the best place to dream and achieve the dream. >> the same opportunities in india i get, i won't make as much of my life as i would over here. >> kuldeep patel: you work hard in this country and if you put your mind to something, you know, it is achievable then, i think. so, america is land of opportunity and best place to stay in the world. >> anthony: some people say, "make america great again." i say, "america was great all along, some of us just forgot why." it's great because your grandfather and my grandfather and everybody's damn grandfather or great grandfather crammed themselves, snuck, bought their way, or was dragged onto a boat and one way or another, allowed themselves eventually to dream. you still can. there's still room and, in some places in america, apparently you are still welcome.

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