Migrants and refugees from Africa are today’s great American “pioneers,” says Marsha Judkins, the liberal Republican mayor of Provo, Utah.
Judkins, who became mayor after winning a general election in 2025 by defeating an incumbent Republican, posted a message to Instagram celebrating some of the African refugees who have moved to Utah’s fourth-largest city.
But some critics are ripping Judkins for subverting the original purpose of Pioneer Day to push her liberal immigration agenda.
Pioneer Day was initially founded to celebrate the Mormons who first populated Utah in large numbers, including LDS leader Brigham Young. But Judkins has refashioned Pioneer Day and is insisting that African migrants are Utah’s new...
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