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Mary Gonzalez: “When people got engaged in Tornio, that's when the Tornillo…”

Featuring: Mary Gonzalez, Democratic | Texas House of Representatives, District 75

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State of Texas interview with Rep. Mary Gonzalez

Published | Video Starts at 02:29

… doing my visits and I am going to keep doing press, press conferences and conversations because that is the only way I feel that it'll change. I will say this. When people got engaged in Tornio, that's when the Tornillo Tensity closed. Enough people on both sides of the aisle got outraged that there was enough pressure for the federal government to change and move the tornado 10 city now, I'm hoping that with what people see now that there's a failure of policy, that. (02:29–02:35)

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Asserts that public engagement led to the closure of Tornillo Tent City.

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