EXC: America’s 250th Birthday Commission Chair is a Trump-bashing Obama appointee who feels Mexico is more “my country” than America.
Rosa Rios believes Mexicans “are the future” of America, hates border walls, and thinks “nothing good can come” from Trump.
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Rios celebrated Mexicans overtaking US-born citizens demographically, insisting it’s “not our geography that defines us. Again, I am as much Mexican as I am American” while speaking in 2015.
“We are the same blood. California, where I was born and raised, was Mexico. People tend to forget that, that we are in the same land, and that was Mexico,” Rios continued.
Rios has attacked Trump directly for his “demonizing” rhetoric that’s “difficult” to hear.
“The most difficult is, like, what can we do now? How can we move forward? And this is not time to retreat; it's time to advance and embrace who we are. That we not be silent, and be proud of who we are."
In the same speech, Rios claimed Mexicans “have a pride, an effort, an instinct to survive that there is no one else in the world.”
No one “has more passion than the Mexican people.”
“And I hope that everyone, especially the United States, recognizes you."
Rios has attacked President Trump on other occasions.
“It’s a shame there are no leaders in the US that can defend the Mexicans.”
“I think I’m going to return to Mexico much more. Here I feel at home.”
Rios insisted “nothing good” could come from Trump during an interview with Mexican news.
She declared Mexico as “my country,” adding “my blood is here.”
“There's no wall that can separate that.”
“I can't choose between the two countries; I'm part of both. I was born in California, but California used to be part of Mexico, so the blood is the same.”
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