Charlie Garcia, one of the most successful Latino entrepreneurs in the U.S., has been trying to tell a different story about Latino immigration.

The problem is that it contradicts the current narrative of business mogul Donald Trump and his supporters — that Latinos migrating to the U.S. are drug-smugglers, rapists and murderers. And that those who are not criminally inclined still represent an ever-growing threat to middle-class Americans, leeching off their tax dollars and stealing jobs from their workforce.

Garcia knows that the Trump vision is not uncommon, as evidenced by the groundswell of support behind the Republican’s presidential bid. But he also knows it firsthand.

In “The New Latino Paradigm,” a presentation he gave at an AL DÍA News event at the Union League on Thursday, Garcia shared his family’s own experience.

His daughter ranks number one in her class at a Catholic high school in Boca Raton, Fla. Since classes resumed last month, the daughter, who was born in Ecuador, has been told by several classmates to “go back to Mexico.” Moreover, two teachers in the classroom speak openly about the need to “take back the country” from immigrants. The list goes on.

“That’s what we’re allowing to happen in this country, and no organization or nonprofit is doing anything about it,” Garcia said.

This is but one of many goals Garcia has set for the Association of Latino Professionals for America (ALPFA), a nonprofit organization that empowers Latino leadership. Since becoming ALPFA’s president last year, Garcia has talking about “the new Latino paradigm.”

This new Latino paradigm talks about how Latinos show the largest population growth in the country — and thus a huge grower of the country’s GDP. In fact, Garcia says, the U.S. would have a negative population growth if it weren’t for Latinos. The new Latino paradigm talks about studies that show, by the year 2032, some 70 percent of employment growth is going to be at the hands of Latinos. It talks about a Latino labor force that will grow by 2.6 percent annually over the next 20 years. It talks about how undocumented workers’ pay over $13 billion into social security and Medicare every year, with no future returns.

“If you are older, white, and interested in collecting social security for the next 20 years, you should get up, find the closest Latino next to you, hug him, and say thank you,” Garcia said.

ALFPA is growing their 72,000-person membership rapidly throughout the country. Garcia is recruiting the most senior Latino leaders from every economic sector to be part of the ALFPA’s national leadership team. But it’s not all Latinos. On the director’s board, Garcia also has sought out non-Latino “movers and shakers” to mentor new leadership. In this way, he hopes to change the fact that, while Latinos are 18 percent of the population, only 5 percent of senior management positions are held by Latinos. Meanwhile, he is also trying to build “a culture of philanthropy” among this Latino leadership.

In short, Garcia’s paradigm doesn’t use the usual vocabulary of “diversity” and “multiculturalism.”

“My goal is not just to be one of the best Latino nonprofits, it’s to be one of the best nonprofits in the United States, period, end of story,” Garcia said. “So that’s what we’re doing.”