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Karen Flores MW Social Movements March , 2016

Juan González is doing a march we say named, "Basta Trump Campaign." Gonzales mentioned how more than 50 million U.S. Latinos recently announced a major voter registration drive ahead of the November election that can impact whether or not Trump will become the next president. On of the most powerful and important Spanish channel Univision has unveiled plans to use all of its radio and television stations to register 3 million new voters. Leading to a Latinos having an impact on the next election.  Trump has been basing a lot of his campaign on building a wall with Mexico, attacking Mexico, attacking the immigrant community, and we're seeing increasingly the impact on young people across the country, especially young Latinos. One-half of the 27 million eligible Latino voters, who are citizens and over the age of 18, are millennial. And it's been a sharp increase, a 40 percent increase, just since 2008 in the number of eligible Latinos that could vote. I think what's actually needed is more of a Freedom Summer campaign by the Latino youth of America, similar to what happened in the civil rights movement many years ago, but now it is Latinos taking a stand on their rights and their family members as well. Now there are thousands of Latino youth go into their communities and say, "You're not going to deport our parents. We're American citizens, and we're going to make a stand in terms of 'Basta Trump." Families are not and should not be separated. With the power and help of Univision the Latino voice will be heard.

There are 50 percent of the entire potential [Latino] electorate, but that every year 800,000 young Latinos turn 18 and having the same impact of a presidential election. The Republican Party is really very much afraid of, that Trump's campaign is essentially digging a grave for the Republican Party in the future.

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