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Mark Kelly: “If you are undocumented in our country, you cannot get…”

Featuring: Mark Kelly, Democratic | U.S. Senate from Arizona

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'A conversation isn't good enough': Sen. Kelly blasts Republicans on shutdown stalemate

Published | Video Starts at 02:14

Cuz that's not true, is it? Well, it's also nuts. I think that they always go to undocumented people, illegal immigrants. They're going to blame illegal immigrants for everything. If you are undocumented in our country, you cannot get health care from the Affordable Care act exchange. You are not eligible for Medicare, you are not eligible for Medicaid for undocumented people. So they are just making that up. They just like to blame brown people for brown people. (02:14–02:22)

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Asserts that undocumented immigrants cannot access health care through the ACA exchange.

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