The inscription on the Statue of Liberty states, “Send me your poor, your tired, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free. The wretched refuse of your teeming shores. Send these, the homeless, tempest tossed to me. I lift my lamp beside the golden door.”
America has changed in the past 100 years.
Yes, those people were coming to LIVE HERE and be Americans, not to get money to send back to Mexico.
” “Send me your poor, your tired, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free.”
The French did it to us... :)