Santa Fe County Sheriff Greg Solano spoke today at Santa Fe’s Immigrants Rights Rally and March. He posted some of his speech. Here is an excerpt:
At one time our president demanded Russian President [Gorbachev] to “tear down that wall”. Now some in the Republican Party and in Congress wish to build a great wall on our borders.
This will change the very nature of America and the principles it was built on. The call from the statue of liberty itself. “Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breath free, the wretched refuse of your teeming shore, send these, the homeless, tempest-tost to me. ” Outlined what America is all about.