NATION/WORLD
Saturday, July 25, 2015
East Oregonian
Trump loved, hated by Hispanics
BRIEFLY
Turkish jets hit IS targets
in Syria, Kurds in N. Iraq
By JILL COLVIN
Associated Press
LAREDO, Texas — There was
an audible gasp from the gathered
crowd as Donald Trump’s 757
lifted off the tarmac.
“Oh my God. Wow,” said
Gina Gil, 48, after an excited
shriek, reaching for her 11-year-
old-nephew. “I think it’s a historic
moment, ma’am. Seriously, I
really do.”
Gil was referring to Trump’s
visit Thursday to Laredo, Texas,
a small city on the U.S.-Mexico
border where the Republican pres-
idential candidate spent less than
an hour touring the border, bragged
to reporters about the danger he
faced, proclaimed Hispanics love
him, and stopped traf¿c with a
presidential-sized motorcade.
Yet beyond the spectacle The
Donald seems to create wherever
he goes, the billionaire business-
man’s visit exposed evidence of a
divided community whose over-
AP Photo/LM Otero
whelmingly Hispanic population Republican presidential hopeful Donald Trump speaks after arriving at the airport Thursday for a
both decried Trump as racist and visit to the U.S. Mexico border in Laredo, Texas. Trump is touring the border area to highlight his
cheered his hardline immigration concerns about immigration policies.
views. Interviews during and
after the whirlwind tour with and her husband used to travel of the population identi¿ed as graphic supports more forgiving
more than a dozen local residents across the border frequently to Hispanic or Latino in 2010, lashed immigration policies that would
underscored the danger Trump shop and for entertainment, but out at Trump, who described allow a pathway to citizenship or
represents to the GOP’s relation- are now afraid to cross because of some Mexican immigrants in the permanent residency for immi-
country illegally as “rapists” and grants in the country illegally,
ship with Hispanic voters and violence from the drug cartels.
“I want to go down and say: “criminals” during his announce- according to recent polls.
his appeal to a vocal segment of
Trump, meanwhile, is viewed
frustrated voters, many Hispanics Donald Trump, you’re on ¿re in ment speech last month and has
favorably by just 28 percent
among them, who see a glaring Laredo! Because everybody feels refused to apologize.
“I wish he wouldn’t come of Americans and unfavorably
problem on the nation’s southern what you think!” she said.
Outside Obregon’s Mexican down here,” said Raul Gonzalez, by 58 percent, according to
border that requires attention.
Jessica Gonzalez, 79, a retired Restaurant, Enrique Harrington 65, a retired trailer and truck an Associated Press-Gf. poll
housewife who was born and Ramon, 75, said he felt Span- mechanic who was born and conducted earlier in the month.
raised in Laredo, said she’d ish-speaking immigrants “take raised in Laredo. “He’s very About one-third of whites, but
just 16 percent of Hispanics
watched as the city she’d grown advantage of us” in Laredo, and disrespectful to Latinos.”
said
people
are
responding
to
Laredo-born
Tony
Flores,
and 10 percent of blacks, have a
up in had changed, with restau-
rants replaced with Mexican food what Trump says “because it’s 82, who was wearing a cap that favorable view of Trump.
the truth.”
identi¿ed him as a .orean War
At the airport, Patti Magnon,
and new people coming in.
“I am sick of walking into a veteran, said of Trump: “He is 4, who works for a law ¿rm,
“I think he’s right,” she said
said she brought her 6-year-old
in the parking lot of a local CVS. store and hearing ‘en que le puede poisonous. He is hatred.”
While Hispanic voters along daughter to see Trump’s custom
“All we have is people from ayudar?’ What country are we
the U.S.-Texas border have a plane, emblazoned with his name
foreign countries. ... It’s not like in?” he said.
Others in this growing city of unique perspective, the vast in big gold letters, land and then
it used to be.”
Gonzalez — a Democrat — about 250,000, where 95.6 percent majority of the growing demo- returned to watch him go.
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