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Trisha Calvarese: “Undocumented people are afraid to come out of the shadow…”

Featuring: Trisha Calvarese, Democratic | Former Candidate, U.S. House Colorado, District 4

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Trisha Calvarese is Running Against Lauren Boebert to Expand Voting Rights and Healthcare

Published | Video Starts at 04:49

Right. You can, you can see what they're doing. They're setting the table to already say that there's some kind of big, you know, conspiracy of undocumented. Undocumented people are afraid to come out of the shadow economy. That's part of the problem. Right. And that hurts all working people. So there's certainly, I don't think, voting en masse, as Lauren Boebert is claiming. So that's. You already see they're setting it up to kind of sow seeds of, you know, disinformation and doubt in the district. (04:49–04:57)

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Asserts that fear among undocumented people to emerge from the shadow economy negatively impacts all workers.

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