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For Immediate Release        
Contact: Dan Gordon ,
617-651-0841 
Oct. 28, 2021

**Recordings Posted: Grandi, Jaddou Speak during Virtual Immigration
Convening****All Leading the Way 2021 sessions are available here**

**WASHINGTON, D.C.**- The U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees
critiqued the U.S.'s use of Title 42 at the border. U.S. Citizenship
and Immigration Services Director Ur M. Jaddou talked about the need to
bolster her agency.

These were among the provocative conversations during the National
Immigration Forum's annual Leading the Way
convening, which
aired virtually earlier this week. More than 1300 moderates and
conservatives registered for the event. Recordings of all Leading the
Way sessions are now available
.

The following are quotes from select Leading the Way conversations:

**Filippo Grandi, United Nations High Commissioner for
Refugees:                         **"You can both
protect populations from the [corona]virus and protect asylum seekers
from the risks they're fleeing from, without obliging them to go back
to conflict, to violence and so forth. We told the United States we
understand why Title 42 was established, but the time has come to lift
that restriction and to adopt measures, that other countries have also
adopted, to manage asylum requests without deporting people
indiscriminately because of health reasons."

**Ur M. Jaddou, Director, U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services:
                              **"We want a
more inclusive, more welcoming United States, and this is really part of
our big picture at USCIS. ... In order to do this, though, you need to
fix the fiscal and operational health of the agency."

**Rep. Adam Kinzinger (R), 16th District of Illinois, U.S. House of
Representatives:**"It only benefits the United States to have a process
in place for [Afghan evacuees] to be full citizens of the United States.
... Those that have fought with the United States, or family of those
that have, are exactly the kind of people we need to empower."

**Rep. Jason Crow (D), 6th District of Colorado, U.S. House of
Representatives:                      **"We are
better and we are stronger and we are economically more vibrant as a
community because of the contributions of [Afghan] refugees. I'm going
to continue to tell that story as we resettle our Afghan friends and
partners - that this is going to be a positive for our country."

**Elizabeth Neumann, Chief Strategy Officer, Moonshot; member of
the****Council on National Security and Immigration**

**:**"There's a small core there that truly believes in the great
replacement theory and is trying to establish the whiteness of America.
It's very disgusting, it's evil, and it needs to be exposed in order
for us to get back to having rational policy debates, which are
legitimate and deserve to be held."

**Tom Linebarger, CEO of Cummins Inc.:**

** **"We need talent with the right values, the right energy levels,
the ability to work in teams to solve complicated problems - wherever
they are. We need to apply that talent. The U.S. wins when we attract
the best talent in the world to work for U.S. companies."

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