I get so d@mned tired of having this poem thrown in my face, every time someone decides half of Botswana or Mexico needs to come to America.
It has no more relavance to American policy than a high school essay on the meaning of America. It isn’t part of the constitution.
It is true - it has turned into a cliche. However Beck and Obama got kind of a artistic challenge going on - whose performance was closer to the idea?