diane guerrero and the country i love. all of this tonight on book tv prime time on c-span2. >> a signature feature of book tv is a cover of book fairs and festivals featuring nonnext -- nonfiction authors. panel featured discussion on civil rights, education policy, mississippi state history and the 2016 presidential election. notable authors include john meachum. and former senate majority leader trent discussing book on political polarization, crisis point. go to booktv.org for the complete weekend schedule. >> our c-span campaign 2016 bus is in chicago this week at the national conference of state legislatures asking what issue is more important to you, your district, and your state. >> probably the most important thing issue is education by far. all of the things that were top of the bad list and bottom of the good list is all because of lack of education. we've got some of the general population in louisiana, and we need to do a better job to starting probably childhood education and going forward. >> my name is ryan

my name is diane guerrero. my parents are colombian immigrants. i was born and you new jersey but i was raised in boston. my parents came here with the visa in hopes, the story, sometimes they say we were just going to see, check out the states, my mother had hoped of staying at making a family here and making her dreams come true and eventually their visa expired and they wanted to try to figure out a way to become citizens. that was their journey and their quest. they were undocumented for as long as i can remember and my childhood was shaped by that fact. my parents were very honest with me as a young girl, i knew what their status was and i knew very clearly what my status was. i was was an american citizen and they weren't. i had something they wanted very desperately and they made it very clear that they needed that so we could stay together. so i remember every prayer, every wish was that my parents got these papers that they needed so we could stay together we managed to live our lives but it was scary and i know that anybody who has been

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