WASHINGTON, 03 July 2021, (TON): President Joe Biden celebrated new U.S. citizens at an event at the White House, the same day his administration rolled out a government-wide strategy to encourage more immigrants to become citizens.

Biden said in the East Room, thanking the 21 naturalized Americans for choosing the United States as their home, “it’s dreams of immigrants like you that built America and continued to inject new energy, new vitality, new strength.”

He said “we’ve seen that most clearly during this pandemic, with immigrants as frontline workers and as scientists and researchers on the front lines of finding vaccines.”

Under the plan released by U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS), U.S. border authorities could be asked to hand out information about naturalization to permanent residents entering at ports of entry.

The strategy of encouraging citizenship, called for by Biden in a February executive order, stands in contrast to former President Donald Trump’s attempts to reduce both legal and illegal immigration into the United States.

Another USCIS proposal suggests that the U.S. Postal Service create new stamps that highlight contributions of naturalized citizens and celebrate citizenship more broadly.