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Hassan Ahmad 🇺🇸
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We have to have tough conversations. #VoterPearls
"You were one of the #travelban lawyers?"

"Yes sir."

*Fist bump*

"You got my vote, man."

#VoterPearls
"School safety is my priority. Why are they making it so hard?"

#VoterPearls
"I have 2 small children. Daycare costs are through the roof. I'm a lawyer and gave up doing court appointed work because who can make a living with a $120 cap on misdemeanors?"

"I used to do the same in Fairfax. I feel you."

"Unchanged for decades."

#VoterPearls
"Northam should stay at least as long as Trump does."

#VoterPearls
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Hassan Ahmad 🇺🇸
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They say #BuildTheWall.

I say the wall has already been built.

These are some figures of visa denials from US consulates around the world.

2018 numbers are out, and basically, everyone is getting denied.

This is what happens to people who do it the "right" way.
Inadmissibility grounds explained, with % increase in 2018 over 2017:

212a4: public charge (you might take a public benefit: 415%)

212a6Ci: misrepresentation (you lied: 137%)

212a6E: alien smuggling (you snuck someone in: 213%)

221g: visa refusal (generally: 134%)
I guess everyone around the world decided 2018 would be the year to try all these illegal means to do such.

A likely story.
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Hassan Ahmad 🇺🇸
@HMAesq
It finally happened. Knocking on doors, I met a Latino who voted for Trump.

I know there are many immigrant Trump voters but I'm engaging primarily lean/strong Democrats. Still, every once in a while, you come across a Trump supporter.

This voter wanted to talk immigration.
An educated professional, this voter decried the caravans coming from Cen. America, complaining "they don't even speak Spanish...only dialects" (meaning indigenous languages), they're milking the system, repeating standard GOP talking points about "following the rules."

Oh boy.
I told him if the laws now in place existed when he came decades ago, he wouldn't be allowed in. (And neither would my parents.) Switching to lawyer mode, I walked him through the labor certification process, I-140 ability to pay RFE's, the H-1B lottery, and visa backlogs.
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Hassan Ahmad 🇺🇸
@HMAesq
#RestorativeJustice Community Meeting pscp.tv/w/b0cZZDF4blFy…
How do we deal with hate that gets taught and infects our society?

We had a great discussion about this last night at our #RestorativeJustice meeting.

A civil rights activist and the son of a white nationalist leader who found a way to conquer the hate he was taught.
As a candidate for the Virginia House of Delegates (District 87) I wanted to spark a conversation that looks beyond - far beyond - the next election.

Yes, we have immediate fires to put out, but my advocacy has centered on the long game.

Where will we be in 50 years? 100?
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LETS NOW #KeepAmericaGreat
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