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" We must be clear: Donald Trump is lying when he conflates immigrants coming across the border with MS-13 gangs. "
Pramila Jayapal
Donald Trump
Lying
Immigrants
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" Immigration is about more than just who comes here and who is allowed to stay. It is about who we are as a country and what we are willing to stand up for. "
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" It is always easier to have somebody to blame, but immigrants are not the cause of the country's economic woes. "
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" I would attend a State of the Union by a president with whom I disagree if I felt she or he was otherwise respectful and adhered to basic moral values or basic tenets of civility and respect. "
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" President Trump has harnessed the fear and prejudice that have accompanied every wave of immigrants in United States history, and stoked those fears to further his own agenda. "
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" I am grateful for my family, friends, and all those who send constant love and support - you are my energy and my hope. You teach me, love me even when I'm wrong, and let me ride the challenges and come out whole. "
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" I'm the first South Asian woman to be elected to the House of Representatives. "
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" If you're an opposition party, you are actively using the power you have to oppose the ideas of the other party. "
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" The fact that the immigration issue was the first thing Trump took aim at was a good thing for me, because it's what I spent my life working on. It became a place to see what we've become as a country, and how overreach can actually serve to bring those of us on the Left and Democrats together. "
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" When women are told that sexual harassment is 'part of the job' or when assistants of both sexes enable harassing behavior, they have bought into the culture that says such behavior is not just permissible, it is a desirable expression of power. "
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" Every hour that goes by with family separation policies in effect is another hour that mothers weep thinking of their children, another hour that kids are fearfully wondering where their parents have been taken, another hour that trauma deepens. "
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Children
" I love my district, the 37th Legislative District in Washington State, where I have lived for more than 20 years. "
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Love
Washington
" My grandmother was whip smart as well as an incredible athlete. She played tennis in her sari, cheered on the Indian team in cricket matches, and tried to convince us that her made-up words were real so she could win a Scrabble game. "
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Team
" Regardless of who is elected president in 2016, we all still live together. Each of us has a different role to play, but we all have to hold the collective space for movement-building together. It's the only way we move forward. "
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Us
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" Can you be a progressive if you're anti-immigrant but pro-choice? No! "
Pramila Jayapal
Pro-Choice
You
Progressive
" There isn't really precedent for asylum seekers' being criminally prosecuted at the border before they've had a 'credible fear' hearing. You come seeking asylum. Seeking asylum is not illegal. "
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Before
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" Profiting from student loans is usury, and we just can't continue to allow it. "
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Student Loans
" Racism, sexism, and age-ism are all alive and well in the U.S. House. "
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Racism
Alive
Well
" Ripping children away from their parents has a particular shameful history, both in this country and around the world. "
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Away
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World
" We have to remember that disagreeing with people is fine; it is dehumanizing people that is not, and when that happens, we have to be ready to speak up. "
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Fine
Up
Speak
" I have a little yoga ritual that I do just to move my body around. Whatever I do, it's usually very fast because often I don't have the kind of time that I would like to. "
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Body
Fast
" I feel like young people, more than anyone in the country, always have their moral compass on perfectly straight. "
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" I come from a state in India that is a matrilineal state, Kerala. And so women really are seen as very powerful. "
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" My big idea is that democracy can only work properly if you have truly representative people at the table. "
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" When I was a little girl, my dad always said to me that I was going to be this great businesswoman, that I was going to be the CEO of IBM. So that's what I came into the world thinking, that I was going to go into the business world and make my mark there. "
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" I was on the committee that helped raise the minimum wage here in Seattle. I introduced a statewide bill to raise the minimum wage in Washington state my first year in the state senate, and I really believe that raising the federal minimum wage, while not the answer to everything, addresses a lot of the issues at the very bottom. "
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Seattle
" If you look at the future of the Democratic Party, things like raising the minimum wage - Democrats need to get behind raising the minimum wage and be clear on where we stand on trade deals. "
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Look
Future
Party
" I like to have my cup of green tea. "
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Like
Green
Cup
" I actually had a number of different careers. I worked on Wall Street; I was a Master's in Business. I left that to work in the public sector. "
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" We the people are sick and tired of the criminalization of immigrants, sick to our hearts to see Trump's family separation policies rip families apart across our country. "
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" Getting a college degree used to be free or low cost because, as a society, we saw providing higher education to young people as an investment - in them and in the future of our own country. "
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