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Beto O'Rourke: “In El Paso, there are bound to be many mixed-status families amongst those 200,000 uninsured people that I represent in…”

On the recordNovember 12, 2013
In El Paso, there are bound to be many mixed-status families amongst those 200,000 uninsured people that I represent in our community.
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Beto O'Rourke
Democratic · Texas

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O'Rourke highlights the issue of uninsured mixed-status families in his district.

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