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born 1976
Nanette Díaz Barragán (born September 15, 1976) is an American politician and attorney, who is currently serving as the Democratic representative for California's 44th congressional district in the United States House of Representatives since 2017. Besides that, she has also once served as a city councilmember of the city of Hermosa Beach from 2013 until 2015.
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This is an abuse of power and what dictators do. It's unnecessary and not needed.
I believe that education is the number one equalizer.
You bring up the National Guard, you rise tensions. People come out and this is what you're starting to see happen.
Some of those people, they're just dismissing their cases. They're trampling on due process. They're not even getting access to a lawyer.
When you spread it out and say, we're just going to go get anybody we can, that's actually making us less safe, because now you're using resources to get people who are their friends, their neighbors.
Every one of you here can make that difference in this race. This is how we get our message out. We tell people who I am, we tell people who were fighting for, and I can't do it without you because money and politics is buying our elected officials.
Talk about opportunity, we all just want a chance, a shot at the American Dream and how do you get there? In school. Education.
They're just treating everybody as a criminal. They're not distinguishing between who are the real criminals versus -- which are the folks that they're saying they're going after, versus everybody else.
There is a way to do enforcement. It's targeted enforcement. It's been done over and over again and hasn't resulted in this. This is really a distraction.
I've gotten a piece of the American dream, but now I'm running to make sure others have that same opportunity and that in a nutshell is why I'm running for Congress.
There's no targeted effort here to find criminals. Like they said we're going to do. They're sweeping up friends and neighbors of people who are just trying to find jobs at these worksites outside of Home Depot.
It was the sheriffs who got things under control, not the National Guard. In downtown L.A. that night, it was the LAPD who got things under control, it was not the National Guard.
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