USCIS Will Remove “Nation of Immigrants” from Mission Statement

theintercept.com

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I wish that we, the people of the USA, had a voice in how our government thinks it should represent itself. The fact that the word 'customers' is removed is just a distraction from having removed "nation of immigrants". This country is becoming less of an immigrant nation.

What are the implications of this besides a change in words? Does the department now get to make claims about not having to assume certain responsibilities because of the altered mission statement?

I can tell that USCIS has not been doing well lately. Look at how far behind they are in terms of issuing Employment authorization cards. You can look far back in the thread and see how fast it was in previous years. Now it's full of complaints.

https://www.immihelp.com/experience/view-2-6-ead_work_permit...

Isn't this a meaningless statement to begin with? Every nation is a nation of immigrants if you go back far enough.

Not really. Unlike other nations, the idea of modern american nation was born from the hard work of european "immigrant" pioneers going back only a few centuries and that of other immigrants thereafter. This just seems more like closing the door behind me.

This is what happens with all nations. Germany for example, being settled by the Volkswanderung (migration) in the 8th Century, which displaced the previous inhabitants. Every nation starts as a nation of immigrants and then stops being so once it has an established population.

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