Presidential Document2024-12540
Immigrant Heritage Month, 2024
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June 6, 2024
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May 31, 2024
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[Federal Register Volume 89, Number 110 (Thursday, June 6, 2024)]
[Presidential Documents]
[Pages 48255-48256]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [<a href="http://www.gpo.gov">www.gpo.gov</a>]
[FR Doc No: 2024-12540]
Presidential Documents
Federal Register / Vol. 89 , No. 110 / Thursday, June 6, 2024 /
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Title 3--
The President
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Proclamation 10772 of May 31, 2024
Immigrant Heritage Month, 2024
By the President of the United States of America
A Proclamation
America is the only country in the world with a heart
and soul that draws from old and new. We are home to
people whose ancestors have been here for thousands of
years and home to people from every place on Earth.
Some people came freely, some came chained by force,
some came when famine struck or to flee persecution,
and some came to chase dreams that are only possible
here in America. We all come from somewhere, but we are
all Americans. This month, we honor the contributions
and celebrate the remarkable courage of our Nation's
immigrants, whose hopes and dreams helped found this
country and continue to push us forward today.
My own family came to America in the mid-1800s, when
famine struck their homeland in Ireland. The Finnegans
of County Louth and the Blewitts of County Mayo
traveled across an ocean, landing on America's shores
with an unbending belief in the possibilities our
Nation had to offer. Vice President Kamala Harris'
parents emigrated from India and Jamaica to pursue
their education in medicine and economics. So many
Americans share a similar story--their families leaving
everything behind to pursue the American Dream and
working tirelessly to build good lives for themselves
and good futures for their families.
Immigrants keep our economy strong and help drive the
success of our Nation. They ensure our safety as first
responders and military service members; they maintain
the health of our communities as doctors and nurses;
they are there for our family members and children as
educators and care workers; they feed and fuel our
population as more than half of the Nation's
farmworkers; they are one in five of our business
owners; and they are leaders in technology,
philanthropy, and media. All told, they contribute
hundreds of billions of dollars in taxes each year and
create millions of jobs. The ingenuity, grit, and
perseverance of immigrants are driving forces in every
aspect of American life.
On day one of my Administration, I sent a comprehensive
plan to the Congress to fix our broken immigration
system. It aimed to expand legal pathways of
immigration; provide protections for Dreamers and
others who contribute to this country; and address the
violence, corruption, and instability that leads many
to flee their homes. My Administration has worked
tirelessly to strengthen our legal immigration system
and support those who are here. We have rebuilt the
United States Refugee Admissions Program, which once
again serves as a beacon for displaced persons around
the world. We continue to vigorously defend the
Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) policy,
which has allowed more than 800,000 Dreamers to live
and work in the place they call home, against attacks
in the courts. For the first time ever, we have
extended Affordable Care Act coverage to DACA
recipients. We have also expanded legal pathways for
people from Venezuela, Cuba, Nicaragua, and Haiti and
instituted reunification programs so that families stay
together while they complete the immigration process.
My Administration will continue to do everything we
can, but we need the Congress to take action and
provide funding and resources necessary to secure our
border and reform our immigration system.
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As Americans, we have an obligation to ensure that
everyone feels safe and respected. We must give hate no
safe harbor. But too often, immigrant communities
remain the target of bias and discrimination. That is
why my Administration is fighting against the rise of
all forms of hate. In 2021, I signed the COVID-19 Hate
Crimes Act, making it easier to report hate crimes, and
I also established the White House Initiative on Hate-
Motivated Violence to counter these types of attacks
and foster national unity.
During my trip to Ireland last year, I walked the
streets my ancestors used to walk and looked out at the
ocean they crossed two centuries earlier to reach
America. For hundreds of years, people from around the
world have made the courageous trek to our Nation's
soil. They are drawn to our shores by the American idea
that we are all created equal and deserve to be treated
equally throughout our lives. We have never fully lived
up to that promise, but we have never walked away from
it either. This month--and every month--may we recommit
to keeping lit the torch of liberty that has led
generations of immigrants to America.
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 June 2024 as
National Immigrant Heritage Month. I call upon the
people of the United States to learn more about the
history of our Nation's diverse and varied immigrant
communities and to observe this month with appropriate
programs and activities that remind us of the values of
diversity, equity, and inclusion.
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand this
thirty-first day of May, in the year of our Lord two
thousand twenty-four, and of the Independence of the
United States of America the two hundred and forty-
eighth.
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