AOC: NYC Was ‘Built by the Irish Escaping Famine, Italians Escaping Fascism, Jews Escaping the Holocaust... ‘

Ocasio-Cortez: “This city was built by the Irish escaping famine, Italians fleeing fascism, Jews escaping Holocaust, black Americans fleeing slavery and Jim Crow, Latinos seeking a better life, native people standing for themselves, Asian Americans coming together in Queens, in Brooklyn, in The Bronx, in Manhattan, in Staten Island, in this country.”