(12-16-2021, 03:41 AM)captivating Wrote:

(12-14-2021, 07:13 PM)homebiscuit Wrote: Many Hispanics Americans are for tough border control as well.

"Give me your tired, your poor,  your huddled masses yearning to breathe free, the wretched refuse of your teeming shore. Send these, the homeless, tempest-tossed to me, I lift my lamp beside the golden door!"

These are just words to most Americans.

They may as well take the Lady down.

Those words were not written by our government. The statue was given by the French, as a thank you for us taking in so many of the political exiles from the various revolutions not only in France but all over europe, especially in 1848.
The French government paid for the statue, and private donors in the US paid for the pedestal, including the poem, which was written by a private citizen.
Our government did not take the sentiment very seriously, because 30 years later they introduced our first restrictions on immigration.

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