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The Trump backlash: Latino consumers wield new clout
Yahoo! News / Reuters ^ | July 11, 2015 | Herbert Lash and Nandita Bose

Posted on 07/11/2015 3:46:23 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet

When Donald Trump described Mexican immigrants as rapists and drug smugglers last month, Latinos took to social media to express their outrage and urge businesses to sever ties with the billionaire presidential candidate.

In short order, more than 10 organizations canceled their deals with Trump, in what Latino activists are calling an unprecedented recognition of their economic clout.

Latino spending power will hit $1.5 trillion this year, up 50 percent from 2010, according to the Nielsen Co, which analyzes consumer spending trends.

At an average age of 27, the Hispanic population is a decade younger than the U.S. average and just entering the prime of its earning power, market researchers said....

(Excerpt) Read more at news.yahoo.com ...


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Culture/Society; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: hispanics; immigration; latinos; trump
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

I see half of the NON_ENGLISH speaking Latino’s in my grocery store, using EBT cards. Their carts are loaded to the rim. Yap, they do have lot of buying power, thanks to the hard working American tax payers.


41 posted on 07/11/2015 4:35:23 PM PDT by entropy12 (Illegal and welfare dependent legal immigrants are the real problem. Wake up America!)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
Yea it's an amazing sight. Not seeing all those Latinos in their Limos, checking in the Trump hotel lobbies and lined up for their tee times at the golf courses...It's like a ghost town out there.

Oh yea and it's going to be a shame to not see them strutting around the barrios/ghetteos in their Trump clothing from Macy's anymore.

42 posted on 07/11/2015 4:37:17 PM PDT by lewislynn ( Hillary = Obama in a pantsuit)
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To: truth_seeker

How did so many Hispanics get here? Legally only 1 million immigrate here, and most are from Asia.


43 posted on 07/11/2015 4:37:32 PM PDT by entropy12 (Illegal and welfare dependent legal immigrants are the real problem. Wake up America!)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

If we are really interested in building a southern border wall, let’s consult the former Stasi members.


44 posted on 07/11/2015 4:37:33 PM PDT by 353FMG (WARNING! Government is NOT your friend.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

He is starting to do the things I posted a week ago. At least according to my lights he is serious. Serious or not he is hurting the enemedia bad. Like I said a week ago, they will hate it and hate him for it but they will film it. Like a dog that crapped in the house he needs to rub their nose in it again and again. Even a dog eventually learns.


45 posted on 07/11/2015 4:38:13 PM PDT by wastoute (Government cannot redistribute wealth. Government can only redistribute poverty.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Sorry Open Borders types (not you, 2nd, of course), while the Republican BIG MONEY people may only be interested in fattening their wallets with cheap, Illegal, labor, and American be damned - Republican VOTERS (and many Democrat voters) want a country they can recognize in 20 years, and realize that Trump is the ONLY CANDIDATE directly speaking to that today. The others either trying to tiptoe there, but without alienating the ‘Hispanic Vote’ (aka Cruz) or are with the Democrats and are simply OPENLY HOSTILE to the idea of trying to prevent a demographic transformation.

In other words, Trump will not be very easy to silence, not at all.


46 posted on 07/11/2015 4:41:28 PM PDT by BobL (REPUBLICANS - Fight for the WHITE VOTE...and you will win (see my 'about' page))
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To: nomad

All i am saying is let’s hear Trump on the rest of the issues. He’s no dummy. This laser focus on illegal aliens has reached saturation level. Time for Trump to wrap up his final word on that and move on to Iran, obama and the Clintoons. It is so obvious i should be screaming. Let’s get some bona fides from Trump instead of getting mired in too clever by half talking points coming from his advisors. The guy is a populist and should not listen to anyone telling himto “tone it down” for an instant!!!


47 posted on 07/11/2015 4:42:35 PM PDT by Melinator (my 2 cents)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Maybe they can take their earning power and chip in to help the families of those killed by illegal aliens.


48 posted on 07/11/2015 4:43:37 PM PDT by Vision (Living in beauty)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
Yet they claim the number has stabilized at 11 million illegals in the country. The math doesn’t work out here.

Apparently, every illegal alien is making $136,000 per year.

49 posted on 07/11/2015 4:45:00 PM PDT by seowulf (Cogito cogito, ergo cogito sum. Cogito.---Ambrose Bierce)
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To: bert

This current crop of young Latinos have not assimilated to the extent older immigrants used to.

They do not have the move up skills that assimilated people do and if Trump brings America back and non Hispanics get the boost in pride of self and country that the Rinos and Dems have taken away with policies like affimative hiring and promotion, watch out world.

Writers do not know the scene.


50 posted on 07/11/2015 4:46:01 PM PDT by amihow
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To: RedStateRocker

No one ever said the leaders of la Raza were stupid. The Reconquista is not a blind, angry and mindless reaction but well planed by people who know their history.

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No, the La Raza types do not know how to tell the truth about history. They use revisionist history to try to take over lands America paid Mexico $500,000,000 in pure hard gold.For a war Mexico started. Look it up. America paid Mexico even more gold for the Gadsen Purchase. For


51 posted on 07/11/2015 4:51:16 PM PDT by amihow
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

“Latino spending power will hit $1.5 trillion this year.”

That’s a sh*tload of tortillas.


52 posted on 07/11/2015 4:53:33 PM PDT by pleasenotcalifornia
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To: odawg

there would have to be many millions more than the 11 million figure that has been quoted for ten years.”

I would suspect that we have closer to 30 million illegals in the U.S. now, if not more, and not all of them from Mexico.


53 posted on 07/11/2015 4:55:14 PM PDT by Grams A (The Sun will rise in the East in the morning and God is still on his throne.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

To hell with those that are ignorant or disagree with Trump! He is speaking truth and that is so refreshing and of course discouraging to illegal immigrants!

What I don’t understand is why so many legal immigrants are supporting illegals? Why would they?

The problem is that the political correct folks are the news makers or in politics and have too much say in the future of America. That is the major problem.

Trump is stating the facts and while that is not politically correct, it is the truth!


54 posted on 07/11/2015 4:55:15 PM PDT by Deagle (i)
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To: DoughtyOne

Just like Penneys. I get begging mailers all the time. I’ve burned that bridge. Now Macys. And Ford may be next. I’ve already sold my stock.


55 posted on 07/11/2015 4:56:53 PM PDT by Tucker39 (Welcome to America! Now speak English; and keep to the right....In driving, in Faith, and politics.)
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To: nomad

“For a guy as rich as him talk is still cheap. How do you know he`ll walk the walk?”

I have had the same thought. I would say if no one tries to kill him he probably can’t be trusted.


56 posted on 07/11/2015 4:58:07 PM PDT by philetus (Keep doing what you always do and you'll eventually get what you deserve)
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To: Tucker39

Those days are over. Heck they were over twenty years ago.

Wards, Sears, Penny’s...

Then the next tier of Macy, Robinson’s May, Bullocks...


57 posted on 07/11/2015 5:02:37 PM PDT by DoughtyOne (Conservatism: Now home to liars too. And we'll support them. Yea... GOPe)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
To all nitwits that consider themselves "Latino consumers"... GET OUT OF MY COUNTRY!

Thank you.

58 posted on 07/11/2015 5:07:16 PM PDT by Desron13
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To: nomad

Trump has too much pride to fail at anything. He has some good ideas for how to deal with Mexico, China, and Japan. Wish he was in office now to stop Ford from building that plant in Mexico.


59 posted on 07/11/2015 5:10:34 PM PDT by conservativejoy (We Can Elect Ted Cruz! Pray Hard, Work Hard, Trust God!)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet; All

right...they spend $1.5 trillion but cost us ten times that amount in gov’t handouts...


60 posted on 07/11/2015 5:17:33 PM PDT by God luvs America (63.5 million pay no income tax and vote for DemoKrats...)
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