Hundreds of people showed up on a Sunday afternoon in
Minnesota because they are so concerned about their friends and
relatives and they so believe in our democracy. Right down the road
from the Ukrainian Center, where we held our meeting and where I
listened and answered questions from my constituents, is a deli called
Kramarczuk's. It is owned by a Ukrainian immigrant family whose parents
came over to our country having fled oppression, and they came over to
our country and bought this deli. They put this beautiful mural across
an entire wall, and it is a beautiful photo of our Statue of Liberty,
that beacon of democracy. Because of the Kramarczuks--they believe in
our country. They believe in America. They believe in a country that is
going to stand up for freedom of the press, that is going to stand up
for freedom of religion, and that is going to stand up for them and
their rights as immigrants to be citizens in this country. They believe
in it because they have seen the worst of it. They have seen
dictatorships, they have seen oppression, and they came to our country.
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