Taco trucks on every corner? How about taco trucks at every polling site instead. That’s the idea from the United States Hispanic Chamber of Commerce, following a Latino Trump supporter suggesting that a Trump defeat in November would mean taco trucks on every street corner in America (as if that’s...
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While the Trump campaign’s continued word blizzard around immigration is designed to sow confusion, the policy thrust remains consistent and disturbing. America’s Voice Executive Director Frank Sharry called Trump’s approach “the most radical immigration policy of any nominee in modern American politics. The intended outcome of Trump’s policy is to drive...
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Last week, one of the few remaining Latino Trump supporters warned that America was on the brink of a delicious takeover. “My culture is a very dominant culture, and it’s imposing and it’s causing problems,” said Marco Gutierrez, a Mexican immigrant and founder of something called “Latinos For Trump”, during an...
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While Hispanic leaders in the Republican Party continue to withdraw their support from GOP nominee Donald Trump after his nativism-laced speech this week, Florida’s junior Senator Marco Rubio continues to stand by the man that former Jeb Bush advisor Sally Bradshaw has called a total narcissist, misogynist and a bigot....
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New nationwide polling of Latino voters, conducted by Latino Decisions and commissioned by America’s Voice, underscores that Donald Trump is on track for an historically low performance among Latino voters and that the overall Republican brand image among Latinos remains tarnished. This is the second wave in a series...
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A new piece from the Boston Globe lifts up the voices of those most affected by Donald Trump’s belligerent plan for America: the undocumented immigrants who call America home. As we noted earlier today, it’s time for observers to stop claiming that Trump’s immigration plan has somehow softened. Trump...
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It is time for all observers to stop the charade that somehow Donald Trump is “softening” on immigration. According to Frank Sharry, Executive Director of America’s Voice, Trump is proposing “the most radical immigration policy of any nominee in modern American politics.” He adds, “The intended outcome of Trump’s policy...
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Yet Portman Continues to Support Candidate In a new Medium piece today, nationally recognized immigration attorney David Leopold parses Donald Trump’s last two weeks on immigration in detail and concludes: Rhetorical gymnastics aside, what’s crystal clear after Wednesday’s immigration speech is that Donald Trump’s ugly vision of America would rip American families apart,...
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Crossposted from David Leopold’s post on Medium. After Donald Trump met with his Hispanic Advisory Council on August 20, the media tied itself in knots over whether he had “softened” on his insistence that all 11 million undocumented immigrants be deported, a central pillar of his campaign. Then in a Fox News Channel town...
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Donald Trump’s anti-immigrant speech last night might’ve earned cheers from the likes of Ann Coulter and David Duke, but in battleground states where Latinos and immigrants will help decide who occupies the White House next year, it’s a whole different story. From the Las Vegas Review Journal: Donald Trump’s...
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