Democrat Melat Kiros: U.S. Must Elect More Immigrants from ‘Global South’ to Challenge Global World Order

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Socialist Melat Kiros (D), who unseated 15-term Rep. Diana DeGette (D) in Colorado’s first congressional district Democrat primary last month, says the United States must elect more immigrants specifically from the “Global South” to usher in a “reckoning” with the global world order.

“There’s a certain reckoning that we are going to have to have with the global world order as it exists today and the way that it fundamentally will have to shift going forward,” Kiros told a crowd at the Wa’Ela Tigrai conference in Denver, Colorado, whose motto is “Building Little Tigray: Many Cities, One Community.”

“The responsibility that we have as Americans, the recognition that is going to be required of us — of the exploitative and extractive nature that we play on the global scale and the global stage is only going to be challenged if we are getting represented by people who understand that on a fundamental level,” Kiros said. “And that means getting more immigrants into office. That means getting more people who have heritage in the global south into office.”

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