Donald Trump's rising candidacy within the Republic Party is starting to generate debate even within conservative circles, particularly where potential Latino GOP voters are concerned.

"He drowns out a lot of the conservative field, and it's very bad for the Republican Party," Ricky Salabarria said of the party's current front-runner's hardline stance on immigration.

"Being Hispanic, being gay, it all sort of, like, makes it hard to be a part of the GOP right now," the 22-year-old Floridian recently reflected in a NPR interview. "I don't feel like my views are being represented very well."

Since announcing his candidacy for the Oval Office and taking the entire Republican Party by storm, Trump has described many of the Mexican immigrants coming to America as "rapists" and other deplorable forms of life. Then, in his first policy proposal on the subject, he doubled down in his assault, calling for the obliteration of the 14th Amendment, which automatically grants citizenship to those born in the United States.

That triggered much debate among GOP candidates on the subject of "anchor babies," or children born in the U.S. to immigrants in the country illegally, and the question of what should become of them. For his part, Trump has also expressed a desire to build a massive wall that would keep all immigrants out, including the 11 million immigrants he insists he is more than willing to deport.

Not to be left behind, Trump's GOP rivals have also sought to flex their muscles on the issue. Ben Carson has called for positioning armed drones along the border, and Chris Christie expressed his support for a plan that would track all new immigrants on visas as if they were FedEx packages.

With that, some wonder why young voters such as Salabarria continue to classify themselves as Republicans, even when their identity politics no longer coincide with the values expressed by the party.

"I think a lot of it has to do with the idea of free-market economy, limited government," said Salabarria. "I think those ideals still ring true, and I think that's at the core of what being a conservative is."

Through it all, Trump likes to boast that the "Hispanics love him," no matter what the numbers say.

Data shows Trump is hugely unpopular with Latino voters from all walks of life, and a recent Gallup poll showed that about two-thirds (65 percent) of Latino voters have an unfavorable opinion of him, compared with just 14 percent expressing the opposite.