Josh Hafner

USA TODAY

A Mexican flag hung from the Trump International Hotel and Tower in Vancouver over the weekend.

The flag was placed atop the nearly complete building by Mexican-born construction worker Diego Saul Reyna, according to a Facebook post published Sunday.

Because from the concrete pouring, finishing, drywall, taping, wood forming and general labour, Mexicans were there, building it, doing good work, the comments Trump has made about us, 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,



MR 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, like your ancestors were, 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 ourselves, our families and the future tenants in your building

The post seems to reference Trump’s comments from last year, when he characterized Mexican immigrants as rapists and criminals.

The Republican front-runner has also called for a temporary ban on all Muslims entering the United States to prevent terrorism.

Reyna, a steel framer born in Chiapas, Mexico, doesn’t work at the site of Trump’s tower, he told the Huffington Post, but Mexican and Muslim friends of his do. He did it because they cannot, he said.

The Mexican flag is no longer at the construction site, but Facebook users had shared Reyna’s account of the incident nearly 5,000 times by Monday afternoon.

While Reyna, a Canadian resident, isn’t concerned about Trump becoming president in the U.S., he told HuffPo he does worry about the candidate’s ideology spreading north.

Speaking to CBC News, Reyna said Trump’s tower itself symbolizes what people from diverse backgrounds can accomplish when they work together.

"Look at that building, look how beautiful it is ... and that is a result of a coordination of all the ethnic groups in Canada," he said.

See Reyna's original post here:

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