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   From: bksperman@outlook.com   
      
   WASHINGTON — Hillary Clinton's campaign is launching a new   
   effort to tap into the political power of young, undocumented   
   immigrants, hoping to capitalize on Donald Trump's promises to   
   make deporting them a top priority of his presidency.   
      
   The 730,000 young people brought to the U.S. as children without   
   legal status are prohibited from voting. Known as Dreamers,   
   they've proven themselves to be a powerful organizing force in   
   American politics, mounting a high-profile public campaign that   
   pressured President Barack Obama to grant many of them and their   
   parents reprieves from deportation though two executive orders.   
      
   Clinton's national voter registration program, called "Mi Sueño,   
   Tu Voto/My Dream, Your Vote," is being launched on the four-year   
   anniversary of the 2012 order that temporarily shielded from   
   deportation some young immigrants brought to the country   
   illegally as children and allowed them to work legally.   
      
   Organizers will remind voters that a Trump presidency would end   
   that program, according to the campaign, which is already at   
   risk after a June Supreme Court effectively killed Obama's   
   efforts to give legal status to some of the 11 million   
   immigrants living in the U.S. illegally.   
      
   The program is part of an aggressive effort by Clinton's   
   campaign to woo the record 27.3 million Latinos eligible to vote   
   in 2016. Polling shows Trump doing worse with Latino voters than   
   any GOP presidential candidate since 1996. Much of the new   
   effort will focus on battleground states including Colorado,   
   Nevada, North Carolina and Florida, where Latinos and other   
   immigrants make up an important part of the voting base.   
      
   Though Obama's campaign had no formal organization program for   
   Dreamers, door-knocking by those young immigrants, who have   
   lived and attended school in the U.S., helped mobilize many   
   Latino voters who could vote.   
      
   Clinton believes she can harness their power in a more formal   
   way, particularly given her opponent. Trump's anti-immigrant   
   rhetoric has sparked outrage and fear within the Latino   
   community.   
      
   He's promised to revoke Obama's executive orders within the   
   first 100 days of his presidency, calling them the "most   
   unconstitutional actions ever undertaken by a president."   
      
   Clinton has made revamping the country's immigration system a   
   key plank of her presidential campaign. She has said she will   
   introduce legislation during her first 100 days in office, vowed   
   to restore and expand Obama's programs, close private sector   
   detention centers and to "take a very hard look at the   
   deportation policies" now in force.   
      
   Last month, she called on Latino voters to help stop what she   
   called GOP rival Donald Trump's efforts to "fan the flames of   
   racial division."   
      
   "Donald Trump is running the most divisive campaign our   
   lifetime. His message is that you should be afraid," she told a   
   gathering of Latino activists In Washington. "We've got to come   
   back twice as strong and twice as clear. We have got to say with   
   one voice that Latinos are vital part of the American community."   
      
   Yeah.  Without illegal Mexicans and their crime, we'd only have   
   blacks to deal with.   
      
   http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/2016/08/14/us/politics/ap-us-   
   campaign-2016-clinton-dreamers.html?_r=1   
       
      
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