The federal agency tasked with managing immigration to the U.S. has changed its mission statement to reflect a new agenda, removing language that identified America as a “nation of immigrants.”U.S. The revised statement is meant to reflect the guiding principles of the agency’s new director, L. Francis Cissna, who was picked by President Donald Trump. Cissna’s email did not address why the reference to America as a “nation of immigrants” was removed. On Thursday, Cissna’s email to USCIS employees reflected the president’s “America first” policies. “All [immigration] applicants and petitioners should, of course, always be treated with the greatest respect and courtesy,” Cissna wrote in his email.

Source: Huffington Post February 23, 2018 03:22 UTC