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“I want to stop the spread. They are picking homes like you, and I pick tomatoes in the grocery store.”
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On the recordJanuary 8, 2020
the desire to scare our immigrant communities out of answering the census is to help and add a political gain to the Trump administration
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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
Democratic · New York
Source
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Ocasio-Cortez discusses the political motivations behind the census citizenship question.

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