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struggle4progress

(118,295 posts)
Wed Sep 16, 2015, 05:25 PM Sep 2015

Trump has a simple message, but Latinos say it’s not that easy

Bud Kennedy
SEPTEMBER 15, 2015

... On June 13, Trump said people from Mexico are “bringing crime — they’re rapists.” Later, he said he didn’t mean everybody. But he would end birthright citizenship ...

“His rhetoric and his policies correlate with white-supremacist views because he’s disenfranchising an entire population of Hispanics,” Gamez said, referring to those American children born to noncitizen parents, regardless of legal status.

Dallas Democrat Domingo García told the 1,000 or so marchers that Texas is a “bicultural and bilingual state — we’re proud of our heritage, proud of our Tejano black and brown” ...

“The same hands that pick the food we eat, the same hands that build the skyscrapers, those are the same hands that are going to pick the next president,” García said ...


http://www.star-telegram.com/opinion/opn-columns-blogs/bud-kennedy/article35336829.html

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Trump has a simple message, but Latinos say it’s not that easy (Original Post) struggle4progress Sep 2015 OP
Where is Pablo Escobar when you need him. randys1 Sep 2015 #1

randys1

(16,286 posts)
1. Where is Pablo Escobar when you need him.
Wed Sep 16, 2015, 05:27 PM
Sep 2015

I know, not Mexican.

But I think he would have a word or two with The Donald.

Stupid fucking bigots. (The Donald and EVERYONE who supports him)

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