Mexican Immigrant Construction Worker Proudly Trolls Donald Trump
Hangs Flag of Mexico Atop Newest Trump Building
In a beautiful display of pride and integrity, a construction worker on Saturday sent a strong, heartfelt message to Donald Trump by hanging a Mexican flag at the very top of a new Trump Tower in downtown Vancouver, Canada.
Diego Saul Reyna posted the photo on his Facebook page. He writes, “from the concrete pouring, finishing, drywall, taping, wood forming and general labour, Mexicans were there, building it, doing good work.”
Reyna decries “the comments Trump has made about us,” saying they “did not stop us from doing the high quality work we have always done, in our home country or when we migrate to the US/Canada.”
He tells Trump, “we did our best work, your tower here in Vancouver is premium quality, and we were a crucial part of it, not just Mexicans but immigrants as a whole.” And he reminds the U.S. GOP presidential candidate that like Trump’s ancestors, “you are not native american, the insults you have said about us, have not changed our work ethics, while working on your tower Mexicans
didn’t steal anything nor raped anyone, we just did the best work we could possibly do, for my [sic] ourselves, our families and the future tenants in your building.”
Raw Story reports “Reyna told CBC News that he put the flag up there as a message of ‘love and unity,’ that he hopes will reach Trump. By Sunday morning, the flag had been taken down.”
“Look at that building, look how beautiful it is… and that is a result of a coordination of all the ethnic groups in Canada,†Reyna said. (Reyna himself has not worked on this particular building — though it seems likely that somebody had to have let him up there to do this.)
In this YouTube video, Reyna tells Trump, “every time you judge us, you can think, ‘Who is building your towers?’ We are.”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xVMCoBH5jX0
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