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Do you think that when we're hanging out there from the eighth floor that we're raping or selling drugs?

Ramon Alvarez, an El Salvador-born man working on building the Trump International Hotel in Washington, D.C., reacting to Donald Trump's characterizing undocumented immigrants as drug dealers and "rapists," despite the fact that many of the people building the Trump Hotel appear to be Latino workers who came here illegally.

Ramon Alvarez, an El Salvador-born man working on building the Trump International Hotel in Washington, D.C., reacting to Donald Trump's characterizing undocumented immigrants as drug dealers and "rapists," despite the fact that many of the people building the Trump Hotel appear to be Latino workers who came here illegally.

Daniel Luzer is GOVERNING's news editor.