Many Americans have strong opinions about the number of asylum seekers this country should open its arms to, about how many immigrants to allow to start new lives here, and about what to do with people who move

to the U.S. without official permission. Those are all important questions without easy answers,

and you know it can be just as challenging obtaining a visa through all the proper channels.

From KERA in Dallas, this is think. I'm Chris Boyd. Applications, evidence, attorneys, fees, a veritable

alphabet of possible visas to apply for, temporary or permanent residency, green cards, and now

gold cards. It's a lot to navigate. Even for the type of immigrant, most Americans think

would be a worthy addition to the population. My guest knows because he's done it.

Felipe Torres Medina is an award-winning writer for the late show with Stephen Colbert

and an immigrant to the country from Bogota, Columbia.

His book is called America Let Me In.

Choose your immigration story.

Felipe, welcome to think.

Hi, thank you for having me.

Also, thank you for pronouncing my name so well.

Oh, thank you.

You're clearly in Texas.

That's great.

We pride ourselves on that in Texas.

You remind us here that, like, the enormous thing that all immigrants have in common

is that they chose to live in

this country and you see that choice as an act of love I do I do I think uh you know choosing

something is one of the biggest acts of love we can make you know I think your home country is a

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