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Nellie Pou: “Villainizing and targeting immigrants' businesses simply…”

Featuring: Nellie Pou, Democratic | U.S. House New Jersey, District 9

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Published | Video Starts at 14:20

More than harmful, this policy undermines the very, very promise that of equal access to opportunity. Vigilizing or being? Villainizing. Pardon me, Villainizing and targeting immigrants' businesses simply because of their ownership is absolutely wrong. Small businesses bring our towns and cities together. And we need to do everything that we can give them the resources they need to create jobs and flourish in an economy that is getting wrecked by tariffs, by tariffs and bad economic policies. (14:20–14:32)

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Asserts that targeting immigrant-owned businesses is wrong.

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