L.A. Mayor-Elect Nithya Raman on Election Win: This City Has Opened Its Arms for People to Come and Build Their Dreams

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RAMAN: “I just — this city has given me and my family so much. And at a time when, in the federal government over the past two years, we’ve seen a country that has rejected immigrants and, in so many ways, the immigrant dream. I’m an immigrant to this country. And this is a city of immigrants in so many ways, whether they came from across America or whether they came from across the world, this city has opened its arms to people to come and build their dreams here. And the idea that Angelenos voted for an immigrant to be their next mayor at this moment in American history is so deeply moving to me. And I want to tell every single Angeleno out there, I am going to work so hard, and everyone behind me is going to work so hard to earn your trust. To earn your trust and to earn the trust — (applause) — to earn the trust of everyone across this city and to make people believe in Los Angeles again. To make people believe in its City Hall again.”