Biden Seeks to Define His Presidency by an Early Emphasis on Equity
Only two presidents before him have used their first weeks in office to push for equality with the same force, according to one historian.
President Biden made a pledge to defeat “white supremacy” during his Inaugural Address.Credit.Chang W. Lee/The New York Times
Jan. 23, 2021
WASHINGTON In his first days in office, President Biden has devoted more attention to issues of racial equity than any new president since Lyndon B. Johnson, a focus that has cheered civil rights activists and drawn early criticism from conservatives.
In his inauguration speech, the president pledged to defeat “white supremacy,” using a burst of executive orders on Day 1 to declare that “advancing equity, civil rights, racial justice and equal opportunity is the responsibility of the whole of our government.”
January 22, 2021
President Joe Biden proclaimed Inauguration Day “A National Day Of Unity” on Wednesday, following his first presidential address on Capitol Hill that featured a theme of unity while vilifying dissenters from the progressive agenda as white supremacists.
“To overcome these challenges, to restore the soul and secure the future of America requires so much more than words. It requires the most elusive of all things in democracy: unity, unity,” Biden declared in his inaugural address, after having said the following just moments before:
The cry for survival comes from planet itself, a cry that can’t be any more desperate or any more clear. And now a rise of political extremism, white supremacy, domestic terrorism that we must confront and we will defeat.
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In a move that is absolutely a shock to no one, Joe Biden is promising illegal immigration pimps and advocacy groups that he will guarantee a pathway to citizenship for about 11 million illegals who are currently in the United States. My colleague Jeff Charles has the big picture in Biden To Announce Major Immigration Legislation On First Day In Office.
According to Politico, a much broader sweep is in the works:
On Thursday, Biden, Vice President-elect Kamala Harris, policy advisers and three Latino Cabinet nominees met with advocates to outline the president-elect’s immigration, coronavirus and economic agendas.
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If anyone thought the low-legitimacy Joe Biden presidency was going to be a tip-toe unity caretaker operation, they had another thing coming. Biden s getting right to work on a huge, unpopular amnesty plan to reward an estimated 11 million illegal immigrants with instant green cards and a right to citizenship after a mere eight years. He s cynically planning to put it in place with the expectation that Congress will swing to the Republicans in 2022, based on public opposition. Biden has said he plans to immediately introduce an immigration bill after taking office on Wednesday. And top Latino and immigrant advocacy groups whove seen details of the coming package said they were