PITTSBURGH, PA - Only 2,000 of 16,000 eligible Latinos voted in the last primary election in Pittsburgh. Its part of a problem nationwide of low-turnout among Latino voters.
Now, Casa San Jose, an immigrant rights group based in Pittsburgh, is attempting to change this. They have been hiring teams of young activists to encourage Latinos to vote.
"We're just motivating the community to vote and whoever they think is best. But yeah, definitely, they're definitely the scary time for Latinos here in America. But we wish for it to get better," says Eddie Carpiu, a 23-year organizer with Casa San Jose.
The son of immigrants from Ecuador, Eddie is representative of a class of younger Latinos born in the United States who could make a big difference in this election. There are 580,000 eligible Latino voters in Pennsylvania, approximately 6% of the total voter population, and they could play a big role in the election.
Casa San Jose organizers say that the young Latino voters are fired up because of racist comments made against Latinos by Trump and his surrogates.
"I think this will help, because not only did he speak ill of Puerto Ricans and Puerto Rico, but he's also said that Latinos as a whole like to have lots of children, in a very terrible way. And it's just like, you just can't do those things," said Monica Ruiz, director of Casa San Jose, in a YouTube interview last week.
Watch our segment going door-to-door to get Latino voters in Pittsburgh.
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