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In Arizona, a state that’s home to more than one million Latinos, a firestorm is brewing over the placement of a billboard off of Tucson’s Interstate 10 which proclaims: “Stop the Invasion, Secure Our Borders”.

The billboard, was placed by a group called Grassfire.org, an organization that claims its mission “is to impact key issues in our nation by equipping hundreds of thousands of citizens with tools that give our partners a real impact on issues.”

Steve Elliott, president of grassfire.org says, “I think those six words express the sentiment of literally millions of people and I would say the vast majority of people in Tucson.”

Grassfire raised roughly $150,000 to put 12 of the billboards in 7 states.

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