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On the recordJuly 23, 2019
My district is 40 percent immigrant. I can't even begin to count--in our Boston public schools alone there are 150 different languages.
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Ayanna Pressley
Democratic · Massachusetts

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Pressley highlights the diversity and immigrant population in her district.

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