Presidential Document2021-20345
National Hispanic Heritage Month, 2021
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September 17, 2021
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September 14, 2021
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[Federal Register Volume 86, Number 178 (Friday, September 17, 2021)]
[Presidential Documents]
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From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [<a href="http://www.gpo.gov">www.gpo.gov</a>]
[FR Doc No: 2021-20345]
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Vol. 86
Friday,
No. 178
September 17, 2021
Part IV
The President
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Proclamation 10257--National Hispanic Heritage Month, 2021
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Title 3--
The President
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Proclamation 10257 of September 14, 2021
National Hispanic Heritage Month, 2021
By the President of the United States of America
A Proclamation
During National Hispanic Heritage Month, we recognize
that Hispanic heritage is American heritage. We see it
in every aspect of our national life: on our television
and movie screens, in the music that moves our feet,
and in the foods we enjoy. We benefit from the many
contributions of Hispanic scientists working in labs
across the country to help us fight COVID-19 and the
doctors and the nurses on the front lines caring for
people's health. Our Nation is represented by Hispanic
diplomats who share our values in countries all over
the world and strengthened by military members and
their families who serve and sacrifice for the United
States. Our communities are represented by Hispanic
elected officials, and our children are taught by
Hispanic teachers. Our future will be shaped by
Hispanic engineers who are working to develop new
technology that will help us grasp our clean energy
future and by the skilled union workers who are going
to build it.
National Hispanic Heritage Month is an important
reminder of how much strength we draw as a Nation from
our immigrant roots and our values as a Nation of
immigrants. I am proud to recognize my four Hispanic
Cabinet Secretaries--Secretary of Health and Human
Services Xavier Becerra, Secretary of Homeland Security
Alejandro Mayorkas, Secretary of Education Miguel
Cardona and Small Business Administrator Isabel
Guzman--who are all leading executive departments that
oversee critical components of American life. My
Administration is focused on making equity a priority
and ensuring that Hispanics are front and center in our
efforts to improve the lives of working families across
the country.
During National Hispanic Heritage Month, we also
recognize that America cannot succeed unless Hispanic
families and communities succeed, sharing equally in
the benefits of our recovery and our investments. My
American Rescue Plan provided much-needed relief to the
Hispanic community during the pandemic. Additional
Paycheck Protection Program funding for small
businesses and rental assistance has helped families
stay in their homes, and the child tax credit is
helping lift Hispanic children out of poverty.
A critical key to building back better is ensuring that
Hispanic communities also benefit from investments in
roads, clean water, and broadband as well as access to
early education and other resources that support
working families and improve educational outcomes. We
must also continue the fight to protect the sacred
right to vote and provide a pathway to citizenship for
undocumented Hispanics--especially Dreamers, Temporary
Protected Status holders, farmworkers, and essential
workers--through desperately needed immigration reform.
Creating a pathway to citizenship is a top priority for
my Administration not only because this benefits our
Nation's economy but also because it is the right thing
to do.
As we honor and celebrate the contributions of
Hispanics to our Nation, we also reaffirm our
commitment to extending the hand of friendship to Latin
America and strengthening democracy in the region. My
Administration has sent over 5 million doses of the
COVID-19 vaccine to Mexico with millions more on the
way. We have donated over 33 million doses of
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the vaccine to 21 other countries in Latin America.
This included the first doses of the vaccine to reach
Haiti, carried there by the United States Coast Guard.
This vaccine will help protect Haiti's first responders
and health care workers.
In recognition of the achievements of Hispanics, the
Congress, by Public Law 100-402, as amended, has
authorized and requested the President to issue
annually a proclamation designating September 15
through October 15 as ``National Hispanic Heritage
Month.''
NOW, THEREFORE, I, JOSEPH R. BIDEN JR., President of
the United States of America, by virtue of the
authority vested in me by the Constitution and the laws
of the United States, do hereby proclaim September 15
through October 15, 2021, as National Hispanic Heritage
Month. I call upon public officials, educators,
librarians, and all Americans to observe this month
with appropriate ceremonies, activities, and programs.
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand this
fourteenth day of September, in the year of our Lord
two thousand twenty-one, and of the Independence of the
United States of America the two hundred and forty-
sixth.
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