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In this Monday, May 1, 2017 photo, Jose Luis Santiago, right, an immigration advocate, chats with a demonstrator before a protest march in Homestead, Fla. President Donald Trump’s immigration policies and rhetoric are leaving some Mexican Americans and immigrants feeling at odds with Cinco de Mayo. Latino activists and scholars say that ambivalence is bolstered around the hazy history of Cinco de Mayo and by the stereotypes exploited by marketers. (AP Photo/Wilfredo Lee)

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Speaking in Las Vegas at a Cinco de Mayo meeting focused on immigration, Hillary Rodham Clinton met with so-called Dreamers, or young illegal immigrants here under color of President Obama's initial 2012 amnesty, and said she will protect them from Republicans who she said are intent on deporting them. (Associated Press)

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Students at Live Oak High School in Morgan Hill, Calif. wear patriotic clothes on Cinco de Mayo, 2010. (Associated Press) ** FILE **

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An attendee holds a candle at the vigil of Andreas DeJesus, who who died Sunday after being shot during a Cinco de Mayo parade in Detroit, police said. A 24-year-old man was taken into custody in connection with the shooting. (AP Photo/MLive.com, Katie Bailey)

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President Barack Obama speaks at a celebration of Cinco de Mayo in the East Room of the White House in Washington, Monday, May 5, 2014. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)

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Singer Gloria Estefan, center, from Miami, with members of Mariachi band, Los Gallos Negros, at a celebration of Cinco de Mayo in the East Room of the White House in Washington, Monday, May 5, 2014. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)

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** FILE ** Women dressed as a revolutionary Zacapoaztla Indian soldiers dance during a re-enactment of the battle of Puebla between the Zacapoaztlas Indians and French army at the Cinco de Mayo celebrations, in Mexico City, Monday May 5, 2014. Cinco de Mayo commemorates the victory of an ill-equipped Mexican army over French troops in Puebla on May 5, 1862. (AP Photo/Eduardo Verdugo)