among them erika andiola and marielena hincapiÉ which convened the conference.d to have you both on this program. we commemorate and celebrate 50 years since the passage of the civil rights act and the voting rights act and here we are 50 -- 50 years later in need of some meaningful immigration reform for millions of americans whose status is in jeopardy and not clear. give me some sense of what url -- you are doing. >> thank you. the timing is important because we brought together 42 grass-roots organizations and from the south. the issue is playing out severely in the south like in the civil rights movement. it is about the future of our nation and what it means to be a citizen and what it means to have full citizenship. we have 11 million people in our country with children with deep ties to our community. completelyically being marginalized and being deported as you said under this administration in record numbers. we are about to break the 2 million mark. this is more than all people deported in the last century alone. it is a disgrace and this is a level o