[Federal Register Volume 86, Number 178 (Friday, September 17, 2021)]
[Presidential Documents]
[Pages 52067-52068]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
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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



Notice of September 15, 2021--Continuation of the National Emergency 
With Respect to Persons Who Commit, Threaten To Commit, or Support 
Terrorism


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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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