http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qng3cLicbr4

there was also a follow up where i was on the show. I couldn't find the video but here's the transcript.

SANCHEZ: Here's the question. A lot of Americans would say, I get your situation, and I know you are probably a really good guy, but you're in this country illegally, and you got to go. What would you say to them?

(CROSSTALK)

JUAN GOMEZ, FIGHTING DEPORTATION: Well, the first thing I would like to say is, a lot of Americans don't get my situation. A lot of Americans don't realize we came here legally on a tourist visa. A lot of Americans don't realize we applied for political asylum.

And the fact is, it took eight years for our first court case. We applied. We got temporary visas every year. We were working legally. I was going to school legally. We were doing the legal route, which is, you know, still suggested and which Americans believe is the right way to handle the immigration situation. And, then, at the end of it, after 13 years -- it took 13 years, from 1990 to 2003, for them to give us our final order of deportation.

SANCHEZ: So, the final order of deportation means you are in this country right now illegally, correct?

GOMEZ: Yes, exactly.

SANCHEZ: There's something that you're trying to get passed, and that's the reason we're seeing the walls of Congress behind you there. It's going to be called the Dream Act, I understand.

If you arrived in the U.S. before you were 16 years of age, if you lived in the U.S. for five consecutive years, if you graduated from a U.S. high school, and if you're in good standing, you know, somebody who has got good moral character, then they should allow people like that to stay. And you fit that criteria, right?

GOMEZ: Yes. I have actually graduated from Killian in the top 2 percent of my class, got a 1410 SAT score, involved in community service projects. I went to homeless shelters. I have been here since I was a year and 10 months old. SANCHEZ: So, you're really as much an American kid as you are anything else?

GOMEZ: Exactly.

SANCHEZ: Sending you to Colombia -- by the way, how is your Spanish? Not very good?

GOMEZ: No, not at all.

SANCHEZ: So, you would be, like, starting over if you had to go back.

(CROSSTALK)

GOMEZ: Exactly. It's just...

SANCHEZ: It would be like a foreign country to you.

GOMEZ: It's just -- I like -- I like to think of this way. I have never adjusted to an American lifestyle. I grew up in an American lifestyle, that's the difference. My oldest memories aren't even from New York when I first arrived here. They're from California.

SANCHEZ: We had Tom Tancredo on the show last week and we were talking about your case. I don't know if you saw that.

GOMEZ: Yes I did.

SANCHEZ: Here's what he had to say, because many viewers didn't see it and then I'll get your reaction on the other side. Go ahead, Will.

(BEGIN VIDEO CLIP)

TOM TANCREDO (R),PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE: Here's the problem, how in the world do you tell everybody else who's waiting to come into this country the right way or all the ones that have done it the right way that it really doesn't matter?

(END VIDEO CLIP)

SANCHEZ: Tom Tancredo's answer. What's yours?

GOMEZ: Well, the thing is, how are you going to tell those people the fact that they still have another 13 years to wait for potentially their case to be heard? How are you going to tell people that have been here for 20, 25 years that it's the end of the line for them and they have to go? It's really not an issue of immigration; it's more of a humanitarian issue, when you're dealing with the Dream Act.

SANCHEZ: Juan Gomez, thanks so much for being with us