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El presidente: Could Trump become America’s first Hispanic president?

By Jamie Weinstein

Published September 21, 2017 2:29pm ET

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El presidente: Could Trump become America’s first Hispanic president? — Supporters of Deferred Action for Childhood Arrival program demonstrate in front of the White House. President Trump ordered an end of protections for young immigrants who were brought into the country illegally as children, but gave Congress six months to act on it. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais) | Pablo Martinez Monsivais

Could Donald Trump be America’s first Hispanic president?

Call the suggestion laughable if you must, but if Trump presides over the legalization of the so-called “Dreamers,” he may have more of a claim on the title than any president since at least Ronald Reagan — and more of a claim on such an honorific than Bill Clinton does for being called the first black president.

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