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At Moncho's, it will be a lot of work and a lot of listening tonight
Hispanic watch party hopes to hear more about immigration and the GOP
by WKSU's M.L. SCHULTZE


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Isabel Montoya and her immediate family moved from Colombia to Ohio 20 years ago to be with extended family.
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In a couple hours, Moncho's restaurant on Cleveland’s west side will be hosting one of dozens of watch parties for the Republican debate. This audience will be primarily Hispanic, looking to see what the GOP candidates have to say about immigration. WKSU’s M.L. Schultze has more from the now relatively quiet room.
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Isabel Montoya is the general manager of Monchos. Her father, Ramon,  opened the Colombian restaurant in what had been a pretty seedy bar a year ago -- after living and working in the United States for 20 years.

She’ll be working tonight, but listening as well – especially to the candidate whose name she won’t utter: Donald Trump.

“As a business person, he’s awesome. I think he’s very smart, very savvy. But he’s definitely hurt a lot of poeple and humiliated a lot of immigrants. We are not all criminals. We have been working here so hard to make it in this country and to hear something like that, it definitely hurts.”

Montoya says her parents emigrated from Colombia in part because of the violence there in the 80s, in part because of the schools in Ohio and in part because they just fell in love with the place – while still loving Colombia. 

 
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