For 18 years, U.S. Army veteran Juan Jasso has called the U.K. his home. So when he was riding the tram in Manchester, England on Tuesday morning, he never expected to be called a “dirty little immigrant.”

A video of three young British men insulting and threatening Jasso, who is a Mexican-American Texas-native from Brownsville, quickly spread, becoming an example of xenophobic sentiments affecting immigrants in the U.K in the days following “Brexit.”

According to The New York Times, the 38-year-old is a lecturer at The Manchester College, a vocational school where he teaches in the sports science department. He is a former rugby coach and was once a signals intelligence analyst for the U.S. Army.

Jasso said he had addressed the three men, whose ages are 20, 18 and 16, at the back of the tram to ask them to watch their language since there were women and children on board.

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The video begins with one of the men calling Jasso a “muppet,” saying “get of the tram now, I’ll waste you, I’ll waste anyone. Don’t talk when you’re not even from England, you dirty immigrant.”

“How old are you?” Jasso responds. “What are you, 18, 19? I’ve been here longer than you have.”

“Get back to Africa,” the man says.

“You are extremely ignorant and not very intelligent,” Jasso says. That’s when the men start walking toward Jasso and one of them throws beer on him. That’s when others on the tram step in.

One woman can be heard telling the men “you’re a disgrace. An absolute disgrace. You’re a disgrace to England.”

According to the Greater Manchester Police’s Facebook, the authorities arrested the three man on Tuesday on suspicion of affray.

He told the Times that Manchester is a multicultural and tolerant city and doesn’t think what happened to him is an accurate reflection of the city.

“What happened is not the Britain I know and that I have come to call home,” he said.

So, today will be interesting. Train➡️ Tram ➡️ Train again. So glad it's Friday.