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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez: “You can take a DACA recipient, a dreamer, just accuse them…”

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

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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is trying to find her party's path back into power. | Morning Edition | NPR

Published | Video Starts at 14:17

Now, even then, you see what Republicans did with the Lake and Riley act recently in their passage with it, in that they authorized the complete gutting of due process. So now You can take a DACA recipient, a dreamer, just accuse them of a crime and deport them. and deport them. However, they also understand that they don't even have the infrastructure to do that. So they're actually creating, not just. It's not even about creating a deportation pipeline. (14:17–14:26)

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Asserts that under new legislation, DACA recipients can be deported based on accusations alone.

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