Mia

I've been coming over here since yesterday.

I came here around 5, 6 yesterday, and then I came back through here this morning and been here since I got home at 12 last night and woke up, dropped my kid off, and came right back with more supplies.

I've been reaching out to family, friends, and community to help donate supplies and things like that, food, whatever they may have.

And I've pretty much been driving around city and collecting from folks that can't make it so I can bring it down here myself.

So that's what I've been doing.

My community, I'm pretty sure they're sympathetic to this because I'm coming from, I'm a first generation Cambodian American here in the US.

And when my parents and my family fled,

their country, they went through this as well.

So somebody somewhere came and provided the support, provided the aid, the donations for them to be able to make it to America, to cross over and able to provide out here for me growing up out here.

So I just sympathize with it, with the whole thing.

I mean, everybody should...

should feel the same way because somewhere down the line, our families went through similar situations.

If you're not indigenous, then your family somewhere down the history went through the same thing.

So, you know, everybody should have a heart for this and be able to come down here and donate or donate their time or supplies, whatever the case may be, you know, come out and help.

Well, you have to keep in mind there's families out here, there's young children, there's babies.

I mean, it takes a lot for a mother to pick up her infant child and to leave where she's coming from.

So that just says a lot about what's going on, where she's coming from, for her to trek and to go through this, to sit out here in the cold and stuff.

Because if she would rather endure this and take the risk and the chances, that means where she's coming from is not as...

You know, she's willing to take that risk.

the people who were doing, who were like here to, I think, you know, kind of do some kind of intimidation where, you know, they wouldn't approach directly.