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“I’ll take jobs back from China, I’ll take jobs back from Japan,” Trump said. “The Hispanics are going to get those jobs, and they’re going to love Trump.”

Republicans are eager to avoid the fate of their 2012 presidential nominee, Mitt Romney, who earned just 27 per cent of the Hispanic vote after endorsing “self-deportation” as a viable policy for solving America’s immigration crisis. The renewed focus on immigration has revealed a growing willingness among Republican presidential contenders to let immigrants living in the U.S. illegally remain here. Such a position is derided as “amnesty” by the Republicans’ conservative tea party wing, yet it is quietly becoming the majority view in the 2016 Republican presidential class.

Trump has overshadowed the carefully crafted views held by Republican heavyweights. The bilingual Jeb Bush, the brother and son of presidents and former governor of Florida, offered a distinctly different message— and spoke partly in Spanish while campaigning in New Hampshire.

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“A Republican will never be elected president of the United States again unless we campaign like this,” Bush said, gesturing with open arms.

“Unless we campaign openly — where we campaign in every nook and cranny of this country, where we go campaign in the Latino communities, fast-growing communities all across this country that will make a difference in who the next president is going to be.”

Trump set up a dramatic scene in advance of his own campaign trip, saying he was putting himself in “great danger” by coming to the border area across from the volatile Mexican city of Nuevo Laredo.