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“I lost my place and all my stuff — my great-grandparents’ dining-room table, the cigar box with all my ticket stubs, all these things I could never get back,” he says, adding that he was one of the lucky ones.

“Why am I for Trump? Because I’m an American first of all,” said Garcia, 70, whose great-grandparents emigrated from Mexico to the U.S.

“They’re in a different tax bracket. And they’ve forgotten the sacrifices that were made by their parents, by their grandparents, by their great-grandparents. Nobody leaves their homeland because it’s great. People leave their homeland because they can’t make a life.”

Irmie Azevedo, 68, said her great-grandparents sponsored people from Portugal who had to promise to work and become citizens.

Salazar said, of the rockers old enough to be their great-grandparents.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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