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I am right here. You can be right here, congresswoman. Mayor. Hi. Thank you. Nice to meet you. Okay. There we go. Sixhour technical difficulties. Good afternoon, everyone. Thank you so much for being here afternoon. I am a National Political reporter forrt politico. I am thrilled to be here in austin with you. At the Texas Tribune festival. We will have a great discussion this afternoon on border politics immigration and the 2020 president ial election. Love to welcome our panelists. Right here next to me is congresswoman sylvia garcia. A freshman democrat from texas. Mustve her district is ea...

Four is going to be one out of three in just a couple of years. Can we afford to short which change their education and the success of this country which demands that we do not . Just last thursday, this body joined me to unanimously pass my bipartisan resolution honoring hispanicserving institutions week, but its hard to take seriously our words of support for minorityserving institutions if we fail to back up those words with real action. Unfortunately, thats where we stand today, on the cusp of skipping town without voting to properly fund these institutions. Across america, 523 hispanicser...

Freshman democrat from texas. Her district is eastern houston. We have mayor ron of san ntonio, and our coexecutive director of the center for new ar democracy based in york city. For those of you joining us via live stream you can also follow twitter rsation on tribunestats19. Some of the stuffer well be well discuss the impact on the aftermath of the in this ass shooting state. President trump rhetoric, his rhetoric, his use of border politics and racial identity in his reelection were also going to cover the immigration plans eing proposed by the democrats running for the white house, and w...

Impact on the 2020 election. They also talk about how local communities address immigration and the immigration policies of the trump administration. And, what 2020 president ial candidates have the best plan to address immigration. This is about one hour. Here. Congresswoman, hi. Okay. There we go. Technical difficulties. Everyone. Rnoon, thank you so much for being here this afternoon. My name is laura lopez. Im a National Political and im for politico, thrilled to be here at the texas festival. Were going to have a great discussion this afternoon on politics, immigration, and the 2020 presi...

Will have a conversation as candidly as possible. I am running for president for a simple reason, the corporations have bought democracy. If we dont return the government of, by, and for the people, we will not get any of the things we want. For the last 10 years, i have organized coalitions of ordinary american citizens to take on and and we have been winning. That is what i believe has to happen. Let me give you a little background on who i am and who my family is. My mom is from minnesota. She ended up teaching in Public Schools in new york. And in the brooklyn houses of detention. My fathe...