About half the agents who patrol the southern US border are Latinos. And despite Donald Trump having won the elections with a campaign fueled by anti-immigration and insults against Mexicans, nobody is questioning their commitment.

One example is Vicente Paco, 35, born in Mexico, and a naturalized US citizen, that every day patrols in his 4x4 vehicle in a desert that once used to be Mexican.

As a US Border Patrol agent in Nogales (Arizona), his job is to do everything he can to stop Mexicans, and others, from illegally entering the US. In the economic and political logic of today’s border, this makes complete sense.

“Our job is to secure the border. When I put on the uniform I’m a Border Patrol agent before anything else.”, says Paco interviewed by The Guardian. An immigrant himself, Vicente Paco thinks ‘heritage is not to be confused with patriotism’.

Read more about Latino Border Patrol agents in today's  The Guardian.