Immigrants no longer welcome? The USCIS official website has removed "The United States is a country of immigrants"

and no longer welcomes immigrants? The USCIS official website has removed the phrase "The United States is a country of immigrants." U.S. citizens and immigrants, who provide services for foreigners to apply for immigration and immigrants to apply for naturalization...

The United States Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS), which provides services for foreigners to apply for immigration and immigrants to apply for naturalization, has undergone major changes in its mission. USCIS has removed the statement "The United States is a country of immigrants" from the "About Us" column of its recently updated webpage. USCIS Director Lee Chesner (Lee) Cissna responded to the media’s email inquiry and stated that the revised purpose represents USCIS’s new mission.

The new purpose no longer mentions that "the United States is a nation of immigrants", but emphasizes that while protecting the security of Americans and the country, and respecting American values, USCIS must manage the legal immigration system of the United States, defend the integrity of the country, and ensure efficiency and fairness in processing immigration and citizenship applications.

USCIS is a department of the Department of Homeland Security. Its previous mission was: "USCIS ensures the United States' continued commitment as a nation of immigrants, provides accurate and effective information to all types of applicants, approves immigration and citizenship applications, enhances immigrants' understanding of naturalization, and ensures the integrity of the U.S. immigration system." "

A USCIS official said that the new purpose reflects changes in USCIS's guiding principles, which focus on fairness, legality, efficiency, protecting the safety of Americans and defending national security. It clearly defines the role of USCIS in the national immigration system and the commitment of USCIS employees to the American people.

Chessner said the new purpose removed the word "customers" to avoid misunderstandings. He said that USCIS is important to both the United States and applicants, but the work is complex and the outside world cannot think that USCIS's work is a commercial practice. Using the word "client" will lead to misunderstandings that applicants are the service recipients, not Americans.

Chesner said that all applicants should be treated with respect and courtesy and no longer use the term "customer", which means that the applicant is not a customer, but a foreigner.