"I'm an immigrant. When it comes down to the political side of it, I don't know much about politics and things like that, but when it comes down [to] the way immigrants have been treated, it's something that goes a long way," Ortiz, who became a U.S. citizen in 2008, told WEEI. "You don't want to go and shake hands with a guy who is treating immigrants like [expletive] because I'm an immigrant."