"In his last election, President Obama won 73 percent of the Asian American vote and 71 percent of the Hispanic vote. If the message Republicans send to these groups sounds like 'we don’t want any more of your kind,' the Democratic nominee, whoever it is, will have a hard time losing."

Trump is one person. And you are only referring to one issue, one that doesn't matter much to most voters. Saying that because Trump holds a simple majority in the polls (which only survey a small percentage of voters), all members of his party agree with his views on immigration is stretching an assumption rather thin. It's like saying because Hillary Clinton leads the democrats' polls, and Bill Clinton was pro-death penalty (see Ricky Ray Rector), the democrats are pro-death penalty. This logic is extremely faulty, especially because the majority of democratic (and I think even the national platform) is anti-death penalty. You are saying because, what is in reality, a monority, not a majority, of people support one candidate who happens to have one opinion that is not seen as the most important issue to the majority of voters, an entire party holds this view doesn't have a high probability of being true. It's much more likely people like Trump because they are dissatisfied with the economy. And dispite whatever the truth may be, Trump is viewed as a success in the business world. Also, yes, the way you phrased your Spanish sentence was sly. Most, almost all, Americans want to keep the de facto language as English. The fact that we have so many immigrants should be a reason to learn English, so we all have a common motive of communication. I've never heard anyone get angry that someone speaks another language, just at people who live in the U.S. And don't speak English. And it could be a warranted anger (someone who doesn't try to learn however unlikely that may be) or it could not be. It takes time to become fluent when learning a language. But to be angry because someone wants people who move to America to be able to communicate with the rest of the country seems, to me, to be a politically charged opinion/talking point, not an ideological or intulectual opinion.

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