came to this country in 1962 from cuba as part of the peter pan program and became an american citizen in 1968. i asked him what he thought of the bill. and he told me, you know, he's a big baseball fan. he said what if i go to arizona to see the diamondbacks play and i go to the game and i forget my i.d.? i've been an american citizen for 42 years. yet i speak with a spanish accent and look very spanish. what happens to me if i'm stopped without proof of identification on me? obviously, a lot of people are not too supportive of this. i talked to several people from mera costa college. we talked earlier, you have some strong sentiments about this senate bill and it becoming a law. >> yes, i do. i'm completely against it. i think that anytime you have a law that gives so much power to the state and singles out a group, it's dangerous and it sends the wrong message to the community. i myself am an immigrant. i came in 1985 to the united states. and since then, i've earned a high school education. i have a bachelor's degree and two master degrees. all of it comes from the support that i f

support of what they are going through in cuba, getting beat up for walking peacefully in the last seven years. they walk, ask for the freedom of their political prisoners injustly incarcerated. this year they were beat up, thrown on a bus. to have the president of the united states here after he issued a strong statement on march 24, i think it was. it was an honor to have president obama here. i support him. i think -- you know, he's in a tough position. i think anybody that took over this country at the moment that he did is going to go through a lot. i think, you know, we're coming back, little by little. >> did you get a chance or will you have a chance to speak to the president about this issue of u.s./cuba relations and what have you or what will you say on that matter to the president? >> i did very much. we already had the event. we had it in two parts. a small group of people met with him first on one side of the house. and then after he greeted them, i was able to show pictures of the march that we had pictures of the ladies in white in cuba getting violently beaten by the pol