This immigrant became an American just to defeat Donald Trump: “I want to vote because I want to make sure that crazy man doesn’t (become president of the United States)”

Will Donald Trump's harsh rhetoric about immigration and immigrants lead to a spike in naturalization rates among immigrants?  California's 1994 immigration landmark, Proposition 187, and later immigration and welfare and immigration reform in 1996, led to a rise in naturalization rates.  Some observers are seeing naturalization rates on the rise.

Sacramento Bee columnist Marcos Breton writes about how Trump convinced one reluctant 77 year old immigrant from Ecuador to take ng hand as he took the oath of citizenship in Sacramento last week, along with 1,000 people from 76 countries who also became citizens.  Washington Espinoza, who was named after George Washington, had lived in the United States for 30 years and had resisted the suggestions of his children to become an American citizen.  He abruptly changed his mind in the last year. Donald Trump, the Republican presidential nominee, had scared Washington Espinoza into becoming an American. “I want to vote because I want to make sure that crazy man doesn’t (become president of the United States),” said Espinoza.

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