please join me in welcoming janet lopez to the stage to recite her poem, see me.applause] >> hello everyone, how are you doing? good. thank you for the introduction. i just want to thank kimberly and emma for allowing me to be here today and just share what i created. as it was said in the introduction, the name of my poem is called see me. i think i should have named it an immigrant's rant but see me sounded more poetic so i went with that. so, yeah. >> no longer human, no longer a woman, no longer a sister or a daughter. i am seen as nothing more than a political controversy. i am undocumented, but undocumented is not who i am. these politicians have dressed their words in white robes and manipulated them so well. those who forgotten where their ancestors came from claim i'm the illegal act. it confuses you. your ignorance has fooled you and fueled your hatred. i speak to my grandma in broken spanish. at times i can say more with my hands than with the tongue, and yet you ask me why i speak english so well. no, i don't clean houses like my mother, but even if i