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Sleeping giant?

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But, for now, the challenge is to stop Trump. If he is elected, Ebrard said, then, as the candidate has repeatedly promised, there are going to be very harsh actions taken against those Latinos who lack legal documentation to be in the country. As has been widely written about, tens of thousands of families that contain a mix of documented and undocumented residents are at risk of being separated and destroyed. If Trump wins, Ebrard said, it’s going to mean that “you now have a society brought into being by xenophobic opinion, and that’s also going to have an impact even on those who are citizens. If your last name is Martínez, or because you speak Spanish, daily life is bound to become more difficult if you now have a political leader telling people that it’s all right, that it’s politically correct, to discriminate against people because of their origin, language, or what they look like, because that’s essentially what Trump is saying.”

Ebrard, like many others, thinks that the Mexican-American vote, and the Latino vote generally, was a sleeping giant that has been awakened, a hypothesis for which there may be evidence in early returns from Nevada. “Twenty-six million of what they call Hispanic—a complicated category anyway—are registered to vote,” he said. “If we suppose that seventy per cent are going to vote for Hillary, that’s a very important number in an election that’s probably going to be decided by no more than six million votes. This sleeping giant has discovered its own identity thanks to the risk to the entire community represented by el Señor Trump. If it hadn’t been for the way that el Señor Trump woke everybody up, it would have been much harder to motivate that vote into a contingent of twenty-six million people now registered to vote.”