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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez: “Most of the people that were preparing food for other people…”

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

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Bernie: The Podcast | Episode 6 - Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez

Published | Video Starts at 12:52

Despite the ACA being passed, neither me nor anyone I worked with had health care because it was too expensive. Most of the people that were preparing food for other people to eat were undocumented. The food costs were a result of these big ag oligopolies. And how all those costs get passed on to little people. There's just on and on and on and on. (12:52–12:59)

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Asserts that the majority of food preparers in her experience were undocumented immigrants.

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