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Christina Headrick in the Raleigh News and Observer has an epiphany with Strength in numbers: Advocates for laws that will benefit Latinos show their might in Raleigh:

Legislators saw red Tuesday -- a whole lot of it -- as more than 900 members of North Carolina's fast-growing Latino community flooded the Legislative Building for the first ever Latino Legislative Day.

Wearing crimson to show their unity and emphasize their numbers, they packed the offices of their hometown legislators ...

So far so good, but you know what's coming:

and urged them to support bills that could benefit the Latino community, such as making it easier for undocumented immigrant children to attend college and hiring more interpreters at state-funded health facilities.

Which is where the benighted taxpayers provide free health care for illegal aliens.

Last year, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services warned state officials that they were discriminating against Latinos and others who do not speak English if they failed to "take reasonable steps" to provide language assistance. The N.C. Department of Health and Human Services promised to address the problem.

About 400,000 Latinos live in North Carolina, making up about 5 percent of the state's population, according to the 2000 Census. But only about half are citizens, and some are not yet old enough to vote.

And how many that are not citizens are voting?