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| Latinos in Detroit say prospect of a Donald Trump presidency is 'scary' | Latinos in Detroit say prospect of a Donald Trump presidency is 'scary' |
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| Inside Mexicantown Bakery in south-west Detroit, one employee has launched a mini voter registration drive with employees to boost the anyone-but-Donald-Trump support. | |
| “She’s making sure that everybody has their voter registration [filed] so they don’t vote for him,” said supervisor Ruth Gomez. “She’s kind of doing a campaign against Donald Trump.” | “She’s making sure that everybody has their voter registration [filed] so they don’t vote for him,” said supervisor Ruth Gomez. “She’s kind of doing a campaign against Donald Trump.” |
| That sentiment is common among residents and employees in the predominantly Latino neighborhood of Detroit known as Mexicantown. And while Trump is projected to continue his political insurgency by winning the Michigan primary next week, he is likely to face a much more hostile audience when he arrives in the majority-Democrat city for the Republican debate on Thursday. | |
| Among those in Mexicantown, his bombastic demeanor and hardline stance on immigration are increasingly common topics of conversation. | Among those in Mexicantown, his bombastic demeanor and hardline stance on immigration are increasingly common topics of conversation. |
| “I know a lot of people both family and friends have made jokes like: ‘Oh, we better get ready to move back home because if he gets elected that’s where we’re going,’” said Cristina Garza, whose parents were born in Mexico. “At least from the people I know … [they] don’t take him seriously. It’s a lot of hot air.” | |
| Garza, 26, said she tends to see herself as a Republican. | Garza, 26, said she tends to see herself as a Republican. |
| “But now, with him, it was like, oh gosh, no, those are not the ideals that I have and I initially associated with Republican views.” | |
| At her bake shop, Gomez often talks to her customers about Trump. | At her bake shop, Gomez often talks to her customers about Trump. |
| “The people I’ve been talking to, that’s not who they want to choose,” she said, pointing to the “racist way he’s talking about Hispanics”. | “The people I’ve been talking to, that’s not who they want to choose,” she said, pointing to the “racist way he’s talking about Hispanics”. |
| “They just don’t want him to have the power,” she said. “They feel like if he’s in power, we’re going to be like the Muppets in front of other countries because of the way he acts” and be a national embarrassment. The sentiment exists throughout the bakery, she said. | “They just don’t want him to have the power,” she said. “They feel like if he’s in power, we’re going to be like the Muppets in front of other countries because of the way he acts” and be a national embarrassment. The sentiment exists throughout the bakery, she said. |
| Raquel Castañeda-López, a Detroit city council member who represents the wouth-west area, said the prospect of a Trump presidency is “scary” and would be “really embarrassing” for the US. | |
| “I would say people more than ever recognize the importance to actually get out and vote,” she said. “Because of his entertaining-style tactics, people are paying more attention to the primaries maybe more than they ever did before.” | “I would say people more than ever recognize the importance to actually get out and vote,” she said. “Because of his entertaining-style tactics, people are paying more attention to the primaries maybe more than they ever did before.” |
| Castañeda-López, 34, is the city’s first ever Hispanic council member. She said she has never found the Trump campaign entertaining. | |
| “I always found him very scary and really embarrassing in a way … this is a presidential candidate,” she said. “But also, [I’m] disappointed with the media because he garners more coverage than anyone else.” | “I always found him very scary and really embarrassing in a way … this is a presidential candidate,” she said. “But also, [I’m] disappointed with the media because he garners more coverage than anyone else.” |
| The billionaire real estate developer’s over-the-top plans to curb illegal immigration and harsh rhetoric has been disseminated widely and criticized heavily by Latino Americans. In recent days, two former Mexican presidents compared Trump to Adolf Hitler, saying as president he’d likely “take the US back to the old days of conflict, war and everything”. Trump has also vowed to make Mexico pay for a “big, beautiful” wall along the US border, while pledging to deport 11 million undocumented individuals. His delayed disavowal of the Ku Klux Klan over the weekend compounded the acrimony toward Trump. | The billionaire real estate developer’s over-the-top plans to curb illegal immigration and harsh rhetoric has been disseminated widely and criticized heavily by Latino Americans. In recent days, two former Mexican presidents compared Trump to Adolf Hitler, saying as president he’d likely “take the US back to the old days of conflict, war and everything”. Trump has also vowed to make Mexico pay for a “big, beautiful” wall along the US border, while pledging to deport 11 million undocumented individuals. His delayed disavowal of the Ku Klux Klan over the weekend compounded the acrimony toward Trump. |
| “Why are [news outlets] choosing to give so much coverage to this individual and allowing him to spread this message and hatred and racism?” Castañeda-López said. The nation wouldn’t allow anyone else to utter similar remarks without retribution, she added, “yet he is allowed to say those things”. | |
| “I always found it very unsettling and never entertaining that he garnered so much attention and so many people support him,” she said. | “I always found it very unsettling and never entertaining that he garnered so much attention and so many people support him,” she said. |