Updated 06:09 AM EDT, Thu, Mar 28, 2024

Mexican Immigrant Gets Attention for Calling Out Donald Trump: 'I Could Lose My Job'

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Republican Presidential Candidate Donald Trump hasn't kept mum about his thought on immigration since he announced his intent to run for the White House.

While a lot of people have been bashing Trump for his offensive, mostly misogynistic antics, a 24-year-old Mexican living in New York decided to go one step further: by calling out the business mogul over his comments about undocumented Mexican immigrants through a video - even though this could get him fired from his current job at a SoHo restaurant.

In the video made by Aca, Fox News Latino reported that the young man is shown holding his cellphone and watching Trump call Mexicans in the US rapists, criminals, and drug dealers.

He said, "I know I could lose my job for just talking about Trump, but it doesn't make me proud every day to go to work under his name."

It was also reported that Koi Restaurant leases space from inside a Trump SoHo hotel.

Aca told the New York Times that he arrived on US soil when he was 14, and describes himself as an undocumented immigrant.

He shared, "I was offended [by Trump's words] because this is not who we are, this is not who I am, this is not anybody I know who is an immigrant."

He also spoke about living in Brooklyn with his family, saying that "This is where I went to school. This is where all my friends are. It's home to me."

As part of the wave of immigrants protected under the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program in 2012, Aca can live in the US without fear of deportation.

He has since received an associate's degree in photography from LaGuardia Community College and works as an assistant in a photo lab.

Aca went on, "I think Republicans think that Mexicans are lazy, but I personally have two jobs. My step-father works two jobs. Everything that my family has we have earned by working hard."

In response to his video, Trump told the Times, "He's got a legal work permit. I've heard he does a good job. We thought he was an illegal immigrant at first."

Trump also pointed out that his companies do not employ people with no proper documentation, but added that he wanted to "check his file".

Despite the ruckus that Aca has made by posting his video, he insisted that it's important to stand up for what he believes in.

He later told the Times, "It's important to stand up for what I believe in and to be able to defend myself."

"I do work at Trump SoHo. I have the platform to send this message."

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