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FRESNO, Calif. (KSEE/KGPE) - In grant of the 215th day of Mexican Independence Day, the City of Fresno raised the Mexican emblem astatine City Hall connected Tuesday.
"Mexican Americans person helped signifier this metropolis from the crushed up. And arsenic 1 of your elected representatives and arsenic a arrogant lad of this vale and our community, I basal present knowing this emblem isn't astir division; rather, it's astir connection. It's astir remembering that the spot of this metropolis comes from the diverseness of the radical and the willingness to amusement up for 1 another," said District 7 Councilmember Nelson Esparza.
At Tuesday's ceremony, the City of Fresno officially proclaimed Sept. 16, 2025, arsenic Mexican Independence Day successful Fresno. Council members hold that this proclamation honors the captious enactment that migrant communities person contributed to making the metropolis great.
"What bash radical ever accidental erstwhile they're not acquainted with Fresno? They emotion the food, and they emotion specifically the Mexican food. And that lone is due to the fact that of the immigrants that person travel here, the generations of hard enactment they've enactment into this community, and however they've lifted america up— and it's very, precise important their communicative beryllium told," said District 2 Councilmember, Council President Mike Karbassi.
City Manager Georgeanne White shared a connection connected behalf of Fresno Mayor Jerry Dyer, who did not be the ceremony.
"This time isn't conscionable astir history; it's astir honoring culture, family, and heavy roots that link truthful galore radical successful Fresno to Mexico. With implicit fractional of our city's colonisation being Hispanic, and galore with nonstop ties to Mexico, this solemnisation is idiosyncratic for a batch of people," White said.
Karbassi added that flights from Fresno are the 3rd astir predominant flights into Guadalajara, Mexico.
"Here successful the United States, determination is simply a ample assemblage of Mexican people, truthful our relations with Fresno and with the States is the astir important," said Irma de Los Ángeles Pimentel Portilla with the Consulado de México en Fresno.
Esparza says the emblem hung serves arsenic a awesome of unity that brings the assemblage person unneurotic done its diversity.
"Many of america present are portion of a larger story. One that stretches from the pueblos and ciudades de México, to the neighborhoods and the fields of the Central Valley. And for some, the Mexican emblem is simply a representation of wherever our families travel from, for others, it's a transportation to household stories told to america successful Spanish, and for immoderate of america it's a surviving awesome of belonging," Esparza expressed.
On Sept. 15, for the archetypal clip successful history, President of México Claudia Sheinbaum became the archetypal pistillate to present the "Grito de Independencia," a contented wherever the president yells successful unison with Mexican citizens declaring their sovereignty.
"Migrants lone inquire for 1 thing: to beryllium allowed to enactment successful peace, to beryllium allowed to unrecorded successful peace. Today, against winds, tides, and aft galore battles, we retrieve and observe the courageousness of Méxicanos and observe the richness of our culture," said Pimentel.
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