For 3 years, I lived a block away from Times Square. Walking through it every day, I began to wonder about the people who dress up as characters for tips… what’s it like to work in the place all New Yorkers avoid?

This is also when Trump was talking incessantly about building a border wall. I couldn’t stop asking myself: What happened to America?

Then I met Victor, an immigrant from Ecuador who dresses up as the Statue of Liberty. This is his story.