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Protesters Follow Sinema into Bathroom of Arizona State University

‘We need to hold you accountable’

EXCERPT:

PROTESTER 2: "We knocked on doors for you to get elected. And just how we got you elected, we can get you out of office if you don’t support what you promised us."
PROTESTER: "We need 7 million — citizenship for 7 million. We need the Build Back Better plan, right now."
PROTESTER 2: "My name is Blanca. I was brought into the United States when I was 3 years old. And in 2010, my grandparents both got deported because of SB 1070. And I'm here because I definitely believe that we need this pathway to citizenship. My grandfather passed away two weeks ago and I was not able to go to Mexico and visit him because there is no pathway to citizenship. And if we have the opportunity to pass it right now, then we need to do it because there's millions of undocumented people just like me, who share the same story or even worse things that happen to them because of SB 1070 and because of anti-immigrant legislation. This is the opportunity to pass it right now and we need you to — we need to hold you accountable to what you told us — what you promised us that you were going to pass when we knocked on doors for you. It's not right."
PROTESTER 3: "I'm a survivor — I'm a survivor of human trafficking, and it's because of the lack of worker protections that we don't have the gig economy. I need you to stand by workers, lots of people who are like me, became homeless..."         

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