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Hassan Ahmad 🇺🇸
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"We keep voting against people, not voting for the people."

#VoterPearls
"If we criminalize everything our leaders did, we'll never move forward."

#VoterPearls
"I teach immigrant kids. I never know what happened exactly, but when they come to school in tears..."

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"I'd like gun control. Before I get shot."

#VoterPearls
"I've seen a lot of changes in Sterling (Virginia) over 43 years. The best thing is our diversity which is our strength."

#VoterPearls
"I ain't no Trumpette."

#VoterPearls
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Hassan Ahmad 🇺🇸
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#Healthcare is a fundamental human right. In 2018, our legislature helped to ensure that right by expanding Medicaid. As of today, nearly 250K Virginians have enrolled in the program and now have access to quality healthcare.
This is what happens when we elect Democrats who are tenacious and unwilling to accept the status quo. But we still have work to do. We still have an opioid epidemic that is devastating communities and major improvements that need to be made to our mental health care system.
Last week, I was happy to visit one of our local facilities and have a great discussion with physicians and staff about these issues; we even tackled the benefits of community health.
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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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Here at @RepJohnKatko's public forum on the future of I-81, hosted by St. Matthew's in East Syracuse. Gym is packed. Diverse crowd.
Katko: With Dems in control of the House, there's a better chance of passing a large infrastructure bill.
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I’m only posting breaking news/ hot takes/pithy rhetorical analysis/puns/selfies from #TribFest18 for the next few days.

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Our country is a mess and is currently being ran by one of the most disgusting human beings on Earth. The good news is that there are millions of us fighting to protect our people and our democracy.
We have some of the finest men and women working day and night right now to bring about JUSTICE and I fully believe that JUSTICE will be served.
Franklin D. Roosevelt once said, "Let us never forget that government is ourselves and not an alien power over us. The ultimate rulers of our democracy are not a President and senators and congressmen and government officials, but the voters of this country."
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