Immigrant Who Works In Trump Hotel: I'm Ashamed Of Him, Not My Status (video)
Ricardo Aca wanted to use his position as an immigrant worker at a gleaming downtown Manhattan hotel owned by real estate mogul Donald Trump to show that Mexicans living in the United States are a hardworking bunch and not, as the Republican presidential candidate described them, rapists or drug dealers.
"I know I could lose my job just for talking about Trump," Aca said in a video produced by New Left Media. "But it doesn't make me proud to go to work every day under his name."
Aca, who described himself as an undocumented immigrant, explains in the video that he came to New York City from Puebla, Mexico, when he was 14. He said he works two jobs, including as a busboy at the restaurant housed inside the Trump SoHo hotel, on top of dabbling in commercial photography.
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"I can't vote, but I can take photos and share the stories of people like me," Aca says in the video, adding: "Trump keeps pointing out all these immigrants that have done all these terrible things, but those aren't the immigrants that I know."
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