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Zoe Lofgren: “Unfortunately, it is only too fitting that this hearing is being held in El Paso, a place that has had to endure the…”

On the recordSeptember 5, 2019
Unfortunately, it is only too fitting that this hearing is being held in El Paso, a place that has had to endure the target painted on our backs because of anti-immigrant rhetoric and a community that has been ground zero for the Trump administration's cruel immigration policies.
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Zoe Lofgren
Democratic · California

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Lofgren highlights the impact of anti-immigrant rhetoric in El Paso.

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