Adelita Grijalva: The Country Is ‘Supposed To Be This Melting Pot Where Everyone Comes Together and Is Stronger as a Result of It’

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GRIJALVA: “Well, and that’s incredibly problematic because our nation is built on really the contributions of immigrants, of people from all different countries, all different nationalities, and all different religions. We do not have an official religion in this country, nor do I believe should we. We are supposed to be this melting pot where everyone comes together and is stronger as a result of it. But under this administration, it is more about how Christian you are. You know you’re not. If you’re Catholic, you’re not Christian enough. If you’re Muslim, you’re not part of our I mean, it’s like this sort of club of elitists and they keep pushing people away and out of what is supposed to be a really solid celebration. Even some of the speakers that were speaking all spoke of religion and not not as much about what our what is, what the contributions have been in our country. We could have had a true celebration of art, music, poetry, just just a big, encompassing celebration of what it is to be an American and everyone that has contributed. But what it. What it has been is an incredibly stifling hot environment where nobody is coming to because”