Hispanic pop stars denounce Trump “racism”
STOP IT, Enough already. “. Hispanic pop stars stars such as Ricky Martin, Marc Anthony and Shakira are uniting in support of Latino advocacy groups in the United States (US), outraged by and the anti-immigrant and anti-Mexican tirades of business tycoon and pre presidential candidate Donald Trump.
Trump said that Mexico is a ‘corrupt’ country and has called for ‘boycott.’
“At what point can this character assume he can make absurd incoherent racist, about us Latinos?” Martin said in a text published On the Hispanic network Univision, which has been at the center of the controversy.
The mood of Hispanics was further inflamed after Trump expelled from a press conference Jorge Ramos, anchorman of the leading channel in Latin America, Univision, when stood up to ask a question to the candidate leading the polls for the GOP primary.
“Return to Univision,” Trump snapped at Ramos, an influential journalist in the Hispanic community in the US, the largest minority in the country with 54 million people and growing electoral clout.
Ramos then returned to the conference and engaged in a verbal tug of war with Trump on the migration plan of the tycoon, including the expulsion of the 11 million undocumented immigrants, mostly Latins and building an impenetrable wall on the border with Mexico.
Trump himself initiated the whirlwind from the moment he announced his presidential campaign in June, when he described Mexicans who enter the United States illegally as drug dealers, criminals and rapists.
Later he while accusing the Mexican government of exporting criminals to the United States.
In addition, Trump raised as a campaign issue “right of soil” which guarantees citizenship to children born on American soil, which he considers a magnet for undocumented workers.
Some commentators have compared Trumps anti Latino campaign to