The President Joe Biden claimed this Wednesday that USA It is a strong country because it is a nation made up of immigrants, in response to the anti-immigration rhetoric of the former president and Republican candidate, Donald Trump.
Biden He made these statements while participating alongside actress Jessica Alba in a reception at the White House with leaders of the Latino community to commemorate Hispanic Heritage Month, which is celebrated every September in USA.
“We do not demonize immigrants. We do not attack them. We do not believe that they are poisoning the blood of our country,” he said. Biden in reference to some comments he made Trump last year.
“We are a nation of immigrants and that is why we are so strong,” he stressed. Biden.
Biden responds to Trump’s rhetoric
The president defended that USA It was not created based on a specific territory or ethnicity, but rather under “the idea that all men and women should be treated equally.”
Biden, who will not seek re-election on November 5 and was applauded in the room with shouts of “Thank you, Joe,” added that the Hispanic community “will change” the country in the next decade because 25% of minors are Latino.
For its part, Jessica Alba He told the story of his grandparents, who migrated from Mexico a USA at the beginning of the last century and “never stopped believing” in a better future.
“That legacy of hard work and unwavering hope is something I carry with me every day,” he said.
“Diversity is one of the greatest strengths”
Previously, the White House He dedicated part of his daily press conference to defending, in Spanish, the policies promoted by Biden and his vice president, the Democratic candidate Kamala Harrisin support of the Latino community, such as the plan to regularize migrants married to Americans, something that has been rejected Trump.
The spokesperson Luisana Perez Fernandez He stated that “diversity is one of the greatest strengths” of USA.
Immigration is a central issue in the November election campaign and was put even more in the spotlight after the Republican campaign Trump (2017-2021) spread the hoax that Haitian migrants eat neighbors’ pets in Springfield (Ohio). EFE
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