[thoughtomator]

That poem shouldn’t even be there. It’s a post-facto add-on by Communists.

[bankwalker]

send the fugly thing back to France ...

[a little elbow grease]

(snip) --- "When the poem speaks of “wretched refuse”, they ignore the ironic tone and assume that the ideal immigrant is wretched refuse. Since the poem speaks of “poor” immigrants, they insist that the United States is obligated to take in not just immigrants who are currently poor, but intend to stay that way.

They believe (often without reading it) that the poem speaks of America’s obligation to the world. But the poem isn’t an idealistic address to the world, but an ironic one to backward tyrannies."