it's not about abdi. it's about all other dreamers that are out there that wanted to come to the united states in one way or another. i have friends that are still living next door to my mother. in the locally displaced makeshift camps in mogadishu that say, well, you know, abdi, you made it, and you have given us some hope. it shows us we have to dream too, that we can be like you one day. and they had been doing this for years. they applied the greencard lottery every year. unfortunately, they have not been selected. but they have been trying it. but now i received text message, and they're saying i don't even want to try this year. i mean, my dream has died. and i don't know what to tell them. >> president trump has said that ending this diversity lottery is part of his immigration reform idea. and obviously somalia, your own country, is on the travel ban. you are trying to become a citizen. do you think you will be able to? and how do you feel this july 4th, independence day? >> i don't look at americ