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U.S. Rep. Filemon Vela (D-TX) wrote an open letter to Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump on Monday morning telling the real-estate mogul to “take your border wall and shove it up your ass.” Vela says he agrees with several of Trump’s policies in theory, but that his controversial rhetoric on Mexicans is despicable. “Why any modern-thinking person would ever believe that building a wall along the border of a neighboring country, which is both our ally and one of our largest trading partners, is frankly astounding and asinine,” he wrote. “Before you dismiss me as just another ‘Mexican,’ let me point out that my great-great grandfather came to this country in 1857, well before your own grandfather. His grandchildren (my grandfather and his brothers) all served our country in World War I and World War II. His great-grandson, my father, served in the U.S. Army and, coincidentally, was one of the first ‘Mexican’ federal judges ever appointed to the federal bench.”