Ed Calderon

So we have an estimated 11 million illegal immigrants in the United States per

and estimated 45 million legal immigrants in the United States.

So there is, on the drug war side, a machine that's fueling the drug war.

But also a governmental intelligence and military support through the sale of weapons.

Policy and rhetoric, the way we talk about it, the way we think about it, not just the actual policy, but seeing the humanity in the people that are here.

Yeah, the idea of go back to your country and finding the other and having a disdain and a hate towards the other.

Ever since I had a recent conversation with Ye, formerly known as Kanye West, I got to hear a few things from

let's say, unfriendly messages from white nationalists, and I got to learn about this world.

I continue on the journey of learning, which is the idea that the United States, this country, should look a certain way, should have a certain skin color, should have a certain religion, and everything else is a pollution, is a poison to this.

I made it sound hateful right now, but they usually frame it in a positive way.

like the purity.

I'm sure Hitler also phrased everything in a positive way, especially in the 1930s about the purity of Germany.

But the reality of the United States, and one of the things that makes it at least the ideal of the United States is the soup, the mix.

Unlike so many nations I've traveled to, the diversity, the good kind of diversity is what makes this country great.

And so I think it needs to be based on the

accepting the different subgroups that make up the United States versus trying to purify it.

And I think Mexican immigrants is just another flavor of saying, this is the other, let's reject the other.

Yeah, listen to with love and respect, not derision.

Let me ask you for advice.

What would you say to young folks wherever they come from?