In early January, 30-year-old Ofelia Valdez heard that Ted Cruz was coming to address a public meeting in Storm Lake, the tiny town where she lives in the far north-west of Iowa, which will on Monday become the first state to cast its votes in the long American primary elections. Cruz, a far-right freshman senator from Texas, is the only candidate seriously challenging Donald Trump in the Republican primary campaign so far. He has ascended in polls largely by aping Trump's furious anti-immigration language while seeking to appear more presidential. Valdez, who was brought illegally to the United States from Mexico when she was 15 by her family and remains undocumented despite having finished...
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