As part of our goal of building bridges of understanding and tolerance, I have been working with Busted Halo–a site for spiritual seekers, to spread awareness about immigrants caught in our situation. Below is the first video of the project:

Dave at Change.org immigration says to skip to 5:25 for the punchline that my immigration attorney delivered two years ago.

With the help of a grant from the Carnegie Corporation, BustedHalo.com began covering the issue of immigration in a unique way. Instead of contributing to the glut of coverage about immigration, BustedHalo is featuring stories by immigrants themselves about the issue. We distributed Flip video cameras to undocumented individuals and agencies across the country and asked them to start video blogging for a period of at least three months.

Busted Borders is an attempt to use the web’s unfiltered nature to move the immigration debate away from abstractions and statistics. Regardless of where you stand on the issue, we hope to give a personal glimpse into the humanity of these strangers in our midst. For reasons of safety, some of the participants have opted to keep their last names and locations secret.

Busted Borders is an ongoing project and we are still in its early stages. If you or someone you know is interested in participating please contact us at borders@bustedhalo.com.

Our stories are not just limited to immigration chronicles. For the first time, I really spoke about my coming out process and what that entailed. My immigration case is complicated, so I tried to explain it as clearly as possible. Feel free to ask questions or share your own story on video.