[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 [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2024-12540]


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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.
                
                
                    (Presidential Sig.)

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