On the El Paso border, Trump’s appeal with Latinos defies expectations
By Alejandra Matos December 9 at 8:00 AM
Ismael Aguayo and his wife Darlene Aguayo during church on Nov. 20, 2016, in El Paso, Texas. (Ivan Pierre Aguirre/For The Washington Post)
EL PASO, Texas — Ramon De La Rosa predicts that it’ll take President-Elect Donald Trump just six months to make America great again.
The 73-year-old is enthusiastically ready to see Trump bring back jobs from places like China and to stop taxing hard-working Americans to pay for food stamps and other entitlement programs.
When Trump launched his presidential campaign and labeled Mexicans illegally entering the country as rapists, criminals and drug dealers, De La Rosa, who was born in Mexico, crossed the border and became a U.S. resident at 17, was not offended. It also didn’t faze him that Trump pledged to build a massive wall along the border here in an effort to keep people just like him out.
“I know he didn’t mean that about all Mexicans,” De La Rosa said, noting that Trump just talks like a “tontito,” a Spanish term meaning fool. “He knows nothing about politics, and nothing about speaking politically correct.”
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