"Tear down this wall."
"Keep, ancient lands, your storied pomp!" cries she
with silent lips. "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-tost to me,
I lift my lamp beside the golden door!"
These words, penned by a Jew from New York, are engraved on the Statue of Liberty, which was crafted and donated by the French to celebrate the alliance between our two countries. We both had cast off the tyranny of monarchy for the hope of liberty.
The first line is usually omitted in references: it is easier to get into the U.S. if you are educated or wealthy. But the U.S. still accepts more legal immigrants as permanent residents than any other country in the world.
Our fear of illegal immigrants, and the stumbling blocks placed before the poor and oppressed who wish to gain residence here, are unAmerican.
The wall between the U.S. and Mexico is unAmerican. It should be torn down; because, to many, it represents a wall between liberty and despair.
If we wish to export liberty to the world, we should import the oppressed. Instead we export bombs and violence, and tarnish the image of this country which God gave to our immigrant ancestors.
God has blessed America. But we turn our backs on him when we turn our backs on the poor.
with silent lips. "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-tost to me,
I lift my lamp beside the golden door!"
These words, penned by a Jew from New York, are engraved on the Statue of Liberty, which was crafted and donated by the French to celebrate the alliance between our two countries. We both had cast off the tyranny of monarchy for the hope of liberty.
The first line is usually omitted in references: it is easier to get into the U.S. if you are educated or wealthy. But the U.S. still accepts more legal immigrants as permanent residents than any other country in the world.
Our fear of illegal immigrants, and the stumbling blocks placed before the poor and oppressed who wish to gain residence here, are unAmerican.
The wall between the U.S. and Mexico is unAmerican. It should be torn down; because, to many, it represents a wall between liberty and despair.
If we wish to export liberty to the world, we should import the oppressed. Instead we export bombs and violence, and tarnish the image of this country which God gave to our immigrant ancestors.
God has blessed America. But we turn our backs on him when we turn our backs on the poor.
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