Presidential Documents

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Federal Register 

Vol. 86, No. 178 

Friday, September 17, 2021 

Title 3— 

The President 

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. 

[FR Doc. 2021–20345 

Filed 9–16–21; 11:15 am] 

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