There are 29m Latinos in the United States, making them the country's second-largest minority.

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The pick is also good news for Catholic Latinos in the United States, said the Rev.

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According to CDC estimates, 9, 400 Latinos in the United States were newly infected with HIV in 2009.

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Latinos in the United States can watch at little or no cost several TV programs from their native lands, call their home abroad on Skype, and hear Latin music in Pandora.

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It is great news for the 52 million Latinos in the United States who will continue to grow their influence and be courted by both parties as long they don't give in to either too easily.

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"He's not doing it because he thinks the region is important, he's doing it because he wants ... to try to send a message to Latinos in the United States -- to say, 'Focus on these things, ' rather than on things that he doesn't have an answer for in the Latino community, " said Dan Restrepo, Obama's senior adviser on Latin America.

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The rub is that New Mexico is home to many Latinos whose roots in the United States go back since before there was a United States, hundreds of years in some cases.

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The story of population growth in the United States is a story about Latinos reshaping our landscape.

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Jeff Passell, senior demographer at the Pew Hispanic Center, called the Census numbers "a cumulative effect of 35 to 40 years of immigration" bringing large numbers of Latinos, Asians and other immigrants into the United States.

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Latinos are now the largest minority group in the United States.

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Last year, Rubio came under criticism from fellow Latinos for getting wrong the year that his parents came to United States.

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Of the 32m Latinos in America, nearly 4m are American citizens who live in the United States territory of Puerto Rico.

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Attitudes about the "American Dream" are also changing among Latinos, who appear to feel distanced from the status quo in the United States.

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