Hispanic Republicans Says Trump Forcing Candidates’ Hands
Can such outspoken talk awaken voters? And could that outweigh the risk that it will fatally tar conservatives as anti-immigrant?
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Michael Parra, a Hispanic Republican from Colorado, doesn’t agree with all the hard-line positions on immigration taken by Donald Trump, including the deportation of 11 million undocumented people already in the U.S.
He does see an unexpected upside: The front-running Republican candidate is laying out clear positions on an issue that has bedeviled his party -- and that’s prompting his competitors to do so, too.