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Biden Deputies Claim U.S. Is a ‘Nation of Welcome’ — Discard ‘Nation of Immigrants’ Pitch



by NEIL MUNRO 10 Feb 2022

President Joe Biden’s progressive allies are dropping the 1950’s “Nation of Immigrants” narrative because they prefer to portray Americans’ homeland as a “Nation of Welcome” to all of the world’s migrants — legal, illegal, or quasi-legal.

The “Nation of Welcome” term is being adopted in a new mission statement announced February 9 by the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) agency, which is part of Alejandro Mayorkas’ Department of Homeland Security:

USCIS upholds America’s promise as a nation of welcome and possibility with fairness, integrity, and respect for all we serve.

“We know that every time we grant an immigration or naturalization benefit, we are fostering the opportunity to help us build a stronger America,” said USCIS director Ur Jaddou  ”And when we offer refuge to those in need of protection we are living up to our nation’s highest ideals. ”



New arrivals from Europe land in New York on board the SS Ernie Pyle, 21st September 1947. (FPG/Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

The older “‘Nation of Immigrants’ [narrative] is no longer inclusive enough for the progressive left — they’re about including everybody except for Americans,” said Rob Law, a former top staffer at the USCIS for President Donald Trump. He continued:

“Nation of immigrants” was a statement that is arguably limited to those who have played by the rules and have some form of [legal] immigration status … [so it] doesn’t include all those Afghans that we just flew in the middle of the night, or the economic migrants showing up at the southern border.

The USCIS statement is notably silent about protecting Americans’ right to exclude illegal migrants from their communities and workplaces, Law added:

It is remarkably, completely devoid of any mention of the American people’s role in our immigration system, or even what USCIS does, which is adjudicating [contested] eligibility [for immigration benefits] … It is only about the perspective of the alien … it’s an open invitation, it’s a wink and a nod saying that “You’ll get in,” for as long as this administration is in charge.

Under Trump, the USCIS dropped the old “Nation of Immigrants” claim from its mission statement. “I’ll drive it home with a sledgehammer here: America’s immigration system is first and foremost, for the benefit of America. Period,” USCIS acting director Ken Cuccinelli told Breitbart News in August 2019.

The new “Nation of Welcome” narrative emerged in 2019 as progressives got enraged by Trump’s popular enforcement of the nation’s popular border laws.

“In nearly three years, the rise of a new form of treating “the other” has changed, perhaps forever, the possibility of becoming a true nation of welcome,” said a 2019 statement from America’s Voice, a long-standing, business-backed progressive lobby for more migration.

In 2020, the Center for American Progress lamented that the United States was “once an exemplary model … a welcoming nation to refugees.”
After Trump’s narrow defeat in November 2020, “now is the time to reaffirm our commitment as a nation of welcome,” said an Ohio pro-migration group.

By 2021, the term was being used in statements and speeches by Democratic politicians and advocacy groups, often to the exclusion of the older “Nation of Immigrants” narrative.

Once the city Afghans lost their half-hearted war against the rural Taliban in 2021 — despite 20 years of aid from their U.S. allies — Biden’s deputies announced “Operation Allies Weclome” to transfer city Afghans to jobs and homes in the United States.

The older “Nation of Immigrants” narrative was pushed in the late 1950s and early 1960s, as national security, business, and ethnic groups demanded more workers, consumers, and voters for mixed economic, ethnic, and ideological reasons.



Hungarian immigrants arriving in America, looking from the deck of their ship towards the Statue of Liberty. (Three Lions/Getty Images)

Congress had reduced the immigration inflow in 1924. The reduction helped to create a high-productivity, middle-class, culturally stable society where families could be supported by a single breadwinner, and domestic divisions were being resolved by widespread prosperity.

Before the 1924 cutback, 800,000 migrants arrived in 1921. The inflow quickly dropped by more than 90 percent, to just 29,000 in 1934. Overall, the population of immigrant Americans dropped from 14 million in 1920 to 9.6 million in 1970. Immigrants provided just seven percent of the population in 1955, down from 15 percent in 1910.

During the same low-migration period, Americans’ inventions, productivity, and wealth boomed. According to PBS, U.S. investors and companies conjured the television in 1927, frozen food in 1929, nylon in 1938, the first digital computer in 1939, the atomic bomb in 1945, suburbia in 1947, the first commercial computer in 1951, the polio vaccine in 1957, the idea for the Internet and the actual moon landing in 1969, the video game in 1972, and much more.

Family income doubled between 1950 and 1970, according to the left-wing Center on Budget and Policy Priorities. But after Congress reopened the doors for immigration, family income stalled — rising only one-quarter from 1980 to 2020 — while the stock market grew by 40 times.

Advocates for more migration got their narrative and their political break in the early 1960s.

The Nation of Immigrants narrative was pushed in a 1964 book, “A Nation of Immigrants,” which was attributed to the assassinated President John Kennedy. “The abundant resources of this land provided the foundation for a great nation … [but] only people could make the opportunity a reality.

Immigration provided the human resources,” the book said.



Maltese immigrants to the U.S. arrive in Brooklyn, New York on board a Yugoslav vessel, circa 1946. (FPG/Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

The narrative was accidentally implemented by Congress and President Lyndon Johnson in 1965, without much understanding of the legislation. In 1990, as investors were exporting manufacturing jobs to Mexico and Asia, President George H. W. Bush doubled legal immigration, loosened the border, and imported a green card workforce for tech companies.

Decades later, the result is that immigrants and their children comprise roughly one in five people living in the socially chaotic, downwardly mobile United States.

Americans are recognizing the damage to their wages, housing, wealth, and politics — despite the multi-decade, near-uniform establishment support for mass migration.

For example, 32 percent of Americans said immigration makes Americans “worse off,” according to a YouGov poll from September 2021. That is up from 20 percent in June 2021. Also, 55 percent of Republicans said immigration makes Americans “worse off” in September 2021, up from 32 percent in June.

Only 37 percent of Americans believe that a “Nation of Immigrant” is a “sacred” value, according to a 2021 study funded by immigration advocates. That score matched the 37 percent share of Americans who believe that restricting citizenship is a sacred value.

But the religious zeal of the pro-migration left is exemplified by Jia Lynn Yang, the top editor for domestic news at the New York Times, and the progressive author of a 2020 pro-migration book, titled “One Mighty and Irresistible Tide”:

The image of the Statue of Liberty, the Emma Lazarus poem at the statue’s base, the notion of America as an eternal “nation of immigrants,” — these make up an intoxicating part of this country’s mythology. Set against all the sins of America’s past — from slavery to the removal and genocide of American Indians — the arrival of open-hearted immigrants, grateful for a chance at a new life on our shores serves as a constant renewal of hope in the American project. If there is salvation for this country, it very well may lie in the underlying gratitude of a refugee whose life has been saved by the granting of a visa.

Yang’s parents migrated from Taiwan, and she wants to recruit more immigrants to remake Americans’ homeland around diverse “ethnic pluralism”:

For those Americans who want ethnic pluralism to be a foundation value of their nation, there is unfinished work. The current generation of immigrants and children of immigrants — like those who came before us — must articulate a new vision for the current era, one that embraces rather than elides how far America has drifted from its European roots. If [recent immigrants] do not, their opponents can simply point out to the America of the last fifty years as a demographic aberration, and they would not be wrong. That task will not be easy.

Yang’s book ends with her denial of Americans’ moral right to have their own political, cultural, and economic jurisdiction in a turbulent world: “What difference is there between us, with our precious [legal immigration and citizenship] papers, and the people we see at our border who are dying to come in? There is none.”



Edward A. Albertis, 71 years old, direct descendant of the first Italian immigrant shows a young New Yorker Frank Poutone the plaque which was just inaugurated in Battery Park on June 05, 1960 during the celebration of the 325th anniversary of the arrival of the first Italian immigrant in the state of New York, in New York, United States. (AFP via Getty Images)

But Yang and her fellow globalists have declined to make that argument in public.

Instead, they have hidden their goals behind political cliches, disregard of Americans’ preferences, suppression of migration economics, and the mass-production of sympathetic stories about migrants’ family dramas. This political strategy makes sense because the polls, politics, and pocketbook economics are against their revolutionary goals.

Yang admitted to an interviewer in 2020 that if diversity by migration is the goal, “you’re going to have to really make that argument in a full-throated way … [and] that’s never been done before.”

But, she added, if pro-American reformers want to “argue that this current [multicultural] demography is a bit of an accident, they actually have a lot of ammunition in the history [of the 1965 immigration law] to make that argument.”



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8:58 PM · Feb 9, 2022

Migration moves money, and since at least 1990, the federal government has tried to extract people from poor countries so they can serve U.S. investors as cheap workers, government-aided consumers, and high-density renters in the U.S. economy.

That economic strategy has no stopping point, and it is harmful to ordinary Americans because it cuts their career opportunities and their wages while it also raises their housing costs.

Extraction migration also curbs Americans’ productivity, shrinks their political clout, and widens the regional wealth gaps between the Democrats’ coastal states and the Republicans’ Heartland states. The growing gaps mean that midwestern states lose investment, jobs, and wealth to the migration-inflated coastal states.

An economy built on extraction migration also radicalizes Americans’ democratic, compromise-promoting civic culture and allows wealthy elites to ignore despairing Americans at the bottom of society.

Unsurprisingly, a widevariety of little-publicized polls do show deep and broadopposition to labor migration and the inflow of temporary contract workers into jobs sought by young U.S. graduates.

The opposition is growing, anti-establishment, multiracial, cross-sex, non-racist, class-based, bipartisan, rational, persistent, and recognizes the solidarity that Americans owe to each other.



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Feb 4, 2022

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Do you think the people living on the side of the roads in cars all all mentally ill or drug addicts? Do you think there isn’t camps full of non addicts?

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10:32 PM · Feb 4, 2022

Biden Deputies Claim U.S. Is a 'Nation of Welcome' -- Discard 'Nation of Immigrants' Pitch (breitbart.com)

Immigration service subs 'inclusive' new mission statement for Trump-era focus on law, security

"The United States is and will remain a welcoming nation that embraces people from across the world who seek family reunification, employment or professional opportunities, and humanitarian protection," the USCIS director said.

By Natalia Mittelstadt
Updated: February 9, 2022 - 11:25pm

The Biden administration's U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services updated its mission statement on Wednesday to reflect "the inclusive character of both our country and this agency."

The new mission statement reads, "USCIS upholds America's promise as a nation of welcome and possibility with fairness, integrity, and respect for all we serve."

The previous mission statement by the Trump administration read, "U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services administers the nation's lawful immigration system, safeguarding its integrity and promise by efficiently and fairly adjudicating requests for immigration benefits while protecting Americans, securing the homeland, and honoring our values."

USCIS Director Ur M. Jaddou said in a press release announcing the new statement: "At its core, USCIS is about delivering decisions to families, businesses, workers, and those seeking refuge in our country on their applications, petitions, requests, and appeals. This new mission statement reflects the inclusive character of both our country and this agency. The United States is and will remain a welcoming nation that embraces people from across the world who seek family reunification, employment or professional opportunities, and humanitarian protection.

"The work of USCIS makes the possibility of America a reality for immigrants, the communities and economies they join, and the nation as a whole.

At USCIS, we know that every time we grant an immigration or naturalization benefit, we are fostering the opportunity to help us build a stronger America. And when we offer refuge to those in need of protection we are living up to our nation's highest ideals. 

"USCIS is committed to ensuring that the immigration system we administer is accessible and humane. As we look towards the future, my commitment will remain the same — USCIS will continue to serve the public with respect and fairness, and lead with integrity to reflect America's promise as a nation of welcome and possibility today and for generations to come."

Rep. Andy Biggs (R-Ariz.) reacted to the new mission statement on Wednesday. "Yet again, Secretary Mayorkas's DHS is wasting time on issues that do not keep our country safe or stop the ongoing crisis at our border," he told Just the News. "USCIS should be focused on protecting Americans and serving our national interests, not woke-ifying its mission statement."

The agency's new statement comes amid record-high arrests of border crossers by U.S. Border Patrol last year, at 1.9 million, and a record 178,840 illegal encounters at the southern border for December 2021. About 20% of those apprehended were released into the U.S. as they awaited their asylum hearings, according to the Wall Street Journal.

On Wednesday, Biggs sent a follow-up letter to Department of Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas after his department took eight months to respond to the congressman's letter asking about DHS releasing illegal immigrants into the U.S. without a court date before an immigration judge.

"The data that you provided in your response confirms what I have long suspected, which is that under your leadership the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) is failing to faithfully execute the laws passed by Congress," Biggs wrote in his new letter.

As a result of the increase in illegal immigrants entering the U.S., many Americans have become victims of other crimes committed by the border crossers, including murder and DUI.

Immigration service subs 'inclusive' new mission statement for Trump-era focus on law, security | Just The News