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Ayanna Pressley

American Politician

Born: Feb 3, 1974

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Making progress on longstanding challenges requires a different lens and a new approach. Ayanna Pressley

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If elected, I will work with federal leaders to rehouse the non-immigration enforcement functions of ICE - including human trafficking and money laundering investigations - elsewhere in the U.S. Department of Homeland Security while immediately eliminating funding for enforcement and removal functions. Ayanna Pressley

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Our immigration system is fundamentally broken, and ICE's role in supporting the existing system - including separating families seeking refuge in the United States and conducting indiscriminate deportation raids in our communities - is creating an atmosphere of toxic fear and mistrust in immigrant communities. Ayanna Pressley

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True enough, Trump is a formidable foe, and systemic inequalities and disparities are worsening under this administration. But they existed long before that. And I want to lead, organize, and legislate to disrupt these disparate outcomes. Ayanna Pressley

I think culture is a very challenging thing to reverse. Ayanna Pressley

Culture Think Reverse Very Challenging Thing

I went to a school with the kids of judges and elected officials and architects, civil leaders, and influencers. And I felt very much a minority in every way. But it did expose me to incredible things. Ayanna Pressley

I used to turn in, like, 20 money orders to pay my rent - $20 for this one, $30 for this one. I didn't have a checking account. Ayanna Pressley

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In Washington, we need to pass a clean DREAM Act. Ayanna Pressley

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There's many law changes, policy changes I can point to. But a lot of my work has also been to name the issue that no one else named - to spotlight it, to advocate for it. That's where all advocacy begins. I've asked different questions. I've raised different issues. Ayanna Pressley

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Not everyone is granted the opportunity that each of us deserves: to fulfill our God-given potential. Ayanna Pressley

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I will sit at the table and compromise with anyone in the name of progress, but there are things I'm not willing to compromise and negotiate on, and that is the rights of women, of immigrants, of workers, and of the LGBTQIA community. Ayanna Pressley

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I knew I would be demonized as entitled and what no woman can ever be: ambitious. Ayanna Pressley

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I'm very confident about my ability to earn votes in every neighborhood. Ayanna Pressley

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Bad influences and distractions were around every corner. But I also learned that my neighborhood could be a nurturing, positive place to grow up. Ayanna Pressley

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We make a mistake when we stereotype neighborhoods as 'bad' and not worth our attention or investment. Ayanna Pressley

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I've always had a love affair with Boston. Ayanna Pressley

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I have been really furious about the constant charges being lobbed against me about identity politics that, by the way, are only lobbed against women and candidates of color. Ayanna Pressley

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We want Boston to be the safest bicycling city. Ayanna Pressley

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My mother informed me that the way to be a change agent to create change, the first line of defense, or however you want to phrase that, is politics and government. Ayanna Pressley

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I've just kept going, like millions of people do every day, because life does not allow them to do anything else. Ayanna Pressley

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I'm an only child, so I don't come from a big family. But it has been my observation from friends who do come from big families that usually, when you have a family fight, on the back end you come out better and stronger for it. Ayanna Pressley

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