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Wednesday, December 17, 2025 at 5:14 AM
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The type of immigrant that Trump will not tell you about

If you passed Max Acuna on the street or on your way to work, or any one of those hundreds of places where people cross paths every day, you wouldn’t

If you passed Max Acuna on the street or on your way to work, or any one of those hundreds of places where people cross paths every day, you wouldn’t give the smartly dressed 30-year-old a second look.

The married father of three — two boys and a girl — lives in the college town of Carlisle, Pennsylvania. He goes to work in the morning. He comes home to his family at night. And he pursues the American Dream with the same ardor of any of his neighbors.

But to hear Trump tell it, I’m supposed to be deathly afraid of Acuna or anyone who looks even remotely like him. He’s a native Mexican who was brought to the United States as a toddler, and lived, along with most of his family, undocumented, until he got his citizenship last summer.

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