Mexico blasts Trump stance on immigrants as absurd, racist
Trump recently unveiled an immigration plan that calls for the mass deportation of undocumented immigrants, forcing Mexico to pay for the construction of a border wall and ending birthright citizenship.
“I know I could lose my job just for talking about Trump, but It doesn’t make me proud to go to work every day under his name”, he says about his participation in the project.
Mexico’s government is denouncing GOP presidential front-runner Donald Trump’s immigration plan as racist, and says it will do harm to both countries. Also, it’s not great that he wants to “keep families together” by deporting the undocumented parent or parents, and shipping their U.S. citizen children out of the country, as well.
Aca reveals that he crossed the border at the age of 14 with his family and has been living in the Bushwick neighborhood of Brooklyn for nearly ten years. This is where all of my friends are.
Aca now works as a busser in the Trump Soho building’s restaurant, a position he’s held for the last two years. When you hear someone argue that illegal immigrants do work Americans will not, ask yourself how much more those jobs would pay were it not for the millions of people willing to do them at bargain-basement prices?
Trump applauded Mexico in his address, stating that “Mexico has done a valuable service to herself… and her people“, and “I’m honestly happy I don’t have to invade”.
Aca was part of a wave of immigrants who were granted deportation protection and work permits under the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program in 2012.
The video is not the only thing Aca is doing to prove the world how wrong Trump is. “Do you think that when we’re hanging out there from the eighth floor that we’re raping or selling drugs?” a Salvadoran immigrant, Ramon Alvarez, said. “And some, I assume, are good people”. A photographer, Aca sees his camera as his voice, saying that while he can’t vote, his photos can illustrate what undocumented immigrants are really like.
“It’s important to stand up for what I believe in and to be able to defend myself”, he added.
Suzanna Chou, a lawyer for the Koi Group, told the Times that Aca’s statements were also false and defamatory and that they implied that he was working illegally for a Trump hotel.
“I like (Trump’s) straightforward outsider’s view of politics”.