Still, nearly 30 percent of Nevada residents are Latino. Trump’s call for a wall across the Mexican border and his hard-line but ever-shifting proposal to deport anyone in the country without proper papers has made an impact among them, said Yvanna Cancela, political director of the Culinary Workers Union, which represents 57,000 hotel and casino workers in Las Vegas and Reno.
“Our union is about 53 percent Latino, and they’ve raised their involvement in the election to levels I’ve never seen before,” she said. “Permanent residents now want to become citizens so they can vote and citizens are not only going to vote themselves, but urging their friends and family members to vote, too.”
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