Great response to Trump's hate rhetoric directed at Hispanics - 'naturalization blitz'.

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Donald Trump's remarks spur Latino 'naturalization blitz' before election

Citizenship clinics will take place in battleground states to push those who are legal residents and will qualify to vote if they upgrade their immigration status

Donald Trump’s scathing rhetoric about Latin American immigrants is galvanizing a movement in the community to pursue American citizenship and register in key battleground states.

In what campaigners are calling a “naturalization blitz”, workshops are being hosted across the country to facilitate Hispanic immigrants who are legal, permanent residents and will only qualify to vote in the 2016 presidential election if they upgrade their immigration status.

The Republican frontrunner’s hostile remarks about Latino immigrants is driving people to the workshops. Trump, who has branded Mexican immigrants as rapists and criminals, and has made the construction of a wall along the southern US border a pillar of his campaign for the White House, is increasingly viewed as the likely Republican candidate for 2016. His anti-immigrant statements have received even more coverage in Spanish-language media than they did in English-language press.

“Our messaging will be very sharply tied to the political moment, urging immigrants and Latinos to respond to hate with political action and power,” said Maria Ponce of iAmerica Action, an immigrant rights campaign sponsored by the Service Employees International Union.

http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/jan/26/donald-trump-latino-hispanic-immigrants-citizenship-voting