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So on the month of June 2015 I turned on the TV and heard someone say this.
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Mexicans are rapists, they are criminals.
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We need to build a wall because this is a war zone.
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This'll was trump talking about Mexico and many people around the world believed him.
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And to be honest with you, I almost did you.
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Maybe he was right.
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It must be scary at the border.
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Mexico must be at war.
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But then one day I decided to switch off the TV and go see the border for myself.
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On what I saw there was very different from what I imagined.
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This is the border between the United States and Mexico.
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It is what people call a war zone.
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It is where drugs and rapists come, but that's not entirely what I saw at the wall.
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I saw Americans who came to Mexico to live, to start businesses and to vacation.
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I saw Mexicans who started agriculture, businesses that make money for Mexicans in Mexico.
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At the wall I saw immigrants, but I saw them working on the Mexican side of the wall.
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That's when I realized Mexicans aren't necessarily flooding in as much as we think, in fact, more Mexicans left the United States, then entered it in the last decade, and I bet you didn't know that from what I saw.
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Mexicans are proud people.
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They are proud of their culture, off the food and their music the way they are, the ones who invented color TV.
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They invented birth control pills, the ones that save you from having kids.
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And they invented tequila, the one that lets you have fun.
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But perhaps the best example off the true Mexican came on the day off tragedy.
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An earthquake hit Mexico City, killing 370 people and destroying tens off buildings, including my hotel room, which was badly damaged.
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It was a dangerous, dangerous time for everyone, and we were all scared.
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Oh my gosh.
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But in these days I truly saw the other side of Mexico.
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Within minutes, everyone was out of their homes, volunteering to help people formed human chains to carry food to the needy.
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Trucks were digging up destroyed buildings looking for survivors, and the entire nation stood still, helping itself recover from disaster.
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It's not the border, it's not the wall.
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This is the Mexico that truly left an impression on me.
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On June 2015 the entire world heard these lines.
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Mexicans are rapists, they are criminals.
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We need to build a wall.
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But if my time in Mexico was any indication, it's that these lines couldn't be any more broad.
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See you next week.