No wonder Mike Johnson didn’t want to swear in Adelita Grijalva! Judging from her first speech on the House floor, she is already one big thorn in his pedo-protecting side. And it’s not only because she provided the last-needed signature on the discharge petition to force the release the Epstein files.
Grijalva has probably already gotten under other MAGA skin, too. Stephen Miller, JD Vance and the other white nationalists in the Trump administration are probably apoplectic over the fact that Grijalva not only touted her Latina, Chicana roots but brazenly spoke Spanish on the House floor while she was at it.
“Thank you, muchas gracias,” Grijalva began, after a long, standing ovation full of cheers and chants. “I rise today the proud granddaughter of a bracero, a hard-working Mexican immigrant who came to this country for a better life, and I stand as the proud daughter of a U.S. congressman, a man who spent his entire life fighting for justice, equity and dignity for the most vulnerable.”
“From working as a vaquero to serving in Congress in just a single generation, that is the promise of this country. That is the America I want to raise my three beautiful children in,” she said.
Grijalva went on to say, in Spanish, that while she is the first Latina Congressperson from Arizona, she will not be the last.
