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Donald Trump\u2019s presidential campaign may actually be empowering the Latino vote. Donald Trump\u2019s presidential campaign may actually be empowering the Latino vote. No, really. 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\nNo, really. At least that\u2019s what a number of non-profit organizations and even the White House are working toward.
\nThe Republican candidate\u2019s harsh words toward immigrants and repeated campaign promises to deport millions of undocumented people and build an impermeable wall along the U.S.-Mexico border immediately propelled him to the front of the GOP pack, but it\u2019s also driving a larger number of immigrants than usual to seek U.S. citizenship \u2013 and have a voice in whether or not Trump wins the White House this November.
\nHortensia Villegas is a Colorado mother of two who immigrated from Mexico legally nearly 10 years ago. She never felt the need to become a citizen, she told the New York Times<\/span>, until Trump rose in the polls.
\n“I want to vote so Donald Trump won\u2019t win,” Villegas, 32, told the paper at a Denver union hall where volunteers were helping hundreds of immigrants to fill out citizenship applications. “He doesn\u2019t like us.”
\nAnd Villegas is not alone. Her sister and parents, as well as the parents of her husband \u2013 Miguel Garf\u00edo, who is a U.S. citizen by virtue of having been born in Colorado \u2013are part of the crush of Latino immigrants who are trying to naturalize in time to vote this year.
\nApplications for citizenship were up in the six months through the end of January by 14 percent over the same time frame…
\nTo read full story: http:\/\/latino.foxnews.com\/latino\/politics\/2016\/03\/08\/latino-immigrants-applying-for-us-citizenship-in-record-numbers-thanks-to-trump\/?intcmp=bigtopteaser<\/em>
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