Ed Calderon

And I can see in it, I get it.

I get what America is.

Dude, I finished high school and then I went to work for a paramilitary institution somewhere in Mexico.

And then I came up here and I have seven employees now in the company.

I've spoken to members of Congress.

I've trained federal forces and people that I've read about in books on how to do things that I learned in this horrible country warfare that I had to go through.

There's no other place on the planet that would have provided me these opportunities for myself and for my daughter.

There's no other place in the world.

So, like, I definitely have fucking skin in the game when it comes to this country.

It is disheartening that with the way things are now, like, we're it.

Like, brown Mexican immigrants of any kind, legal or illegal, are it.

We are it.

it right now.

In the sights of ICE.

In the sights of any sort of authority figure that might want to like see like, wait, wait, what are you doing?

Who are you?

So that's, it's a, it's an anxiety.

And again, it's, I've talking to people from my community across the country.

It's, it's, it's a generalized anxiety of not feeling at home at home, which is dark, dark.

It's dark.