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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez: “If you are an immigrant in this country and you are on a…”

Featuring: Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Democratic | U.S. House, New York, District 14

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Published | Video Starts at 00:17

How can we dissent and challenge without endangering ourselves? Well, I think that every person right now needs to make their own assessments, right? If you are an immigrant in this country and you are on a visa and your visa is very precarious, and Marco Rubio and the administration has been like, don't do this, don't do that, you are far more vulnerable than a U.S. citizen. You know, I think we can look around and look at the power that we have in a given moment. So much of our power right now is in witnessing. (00:17–00:40)

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Asserts that immigrants on precarious visas are more vulnerable than U.S. citizens due to administration policies.

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