Posted on 08/21/2015 3:51:15 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
Vivianna Rodriguez cannot wait for Donald Trump's speech Friday night in Mobile, Alabama.
"I was shocked when I heard that he was coming to Mobile. But I was very excited [as well]. Not because he was speaking, but because we're going to do something about it," she said.
Vivianna is a 24 year-old senior at the University of South Alabama —whose football stadium will host Trump on Friday— and she is an American-born daughter of a single-parent undocumented Mexican immigrant.
Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump has referred to those with her background as "anchor babies."
It's those types of comments that have outraged Vivianna and parts of her college community and energized them to take action.
"Now he wants to take birth citizenship away from me, calling me an anchor baby?" she said. "To go to that extent just so that I won't have my citizenship here when I was born here? This is the only country that I know, and then to call me not an American?"
The young Mexican-American activist told NBC News that she is now "hyped," to organize other students from the University of South Alabama. She threw a party Thursday night to make signs and commit to "making a presence" at the school's Ladd-Peebles Stadium Friday.
"You're not just going to walk into Mobile and think we're not going to have anything to do about it."(continued)
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Probably majoring in “Latina Women’s Studies.”
Yes NBC is full of it. Many of he 30K who showed up had no idea there would be a stadium available. Hell, if I lived in Alabama within a 4 hour drive of Mobile-I’d have been there.
Did anyone show up to protest? Anyone?
I’d be shocked if there weren’t.
SEIU or MoveOn always has a few busloads of operatives and pre-printed signs available for any occasion.
You would think the LSM outlets would make a point of getting them on camera ( iow getting their moneys worth).
Not that I heard of.
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