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Ayanna Pressley: “They claim to uphold law and order while descending on our…”

Featuring: Ayanna Pressley, Democratic | U.S. House Massachusetts, 7th Congressional District

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In Everett Inauguration Speech, Rep. Ayanna Pressley Commends Strength of Everett Community

Published | Video Starts at 06:20

The administration claimed to target the undocumented while systemically dismantling legal immigration pathways, canceling naturalization ceremonies, and ripping away green cards from people who followed the rules but were simply born in. In the wrong place. They claim to uphold law and order while descending on our neighborhood in unmarked vehicles, harboring terror, abducting women, children, and innocent bystanders. And yet Everett has endured. As the saying goes, tough times don't last, but tough people do. And the people of Everett are tough. You have continued to show up. (06:20–06:32)

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Asserts that the Trump administration used unmarked vehicles to abduct people under the guise of law and order.

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