Posted on 06/21/2010 7:52:12 AM PDT by pinochet
Have any of you ever read the poem written by Emma Lazarus, which is engraved on the pedestal of the Statue of Liberty? Part of it says:
"...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..."
The statue of liberty advertises America as a garbage dump, where the rest of the world can dump their "wretched refuse". It tells all the world's nations, that they can gather up all their homeless people, their poor, their lepers, their insane, their bums, their welfare moochers, and their criminals, put them on ships, and dump them on America's shores.
Fidel Castro followed the instructions of Lazarus' poem in 1980, and he emptied the prisons and insane asylums of Cuba, put those people on boats, and dumped them in Florida. This lead to a crime explosion in Florida, and an increase in Florida's welfare budget.
Mexico has decided to follow Cuba's example. They are gathering up their poorest and most illiterate citizens, their drug dealers, their gang members, their homeless, and exporting them to the USA.
We need a Ronald Reagan type figure in immigration reform. He should go to the statue in New York, and declare, "tear down this statue!". The statue of liberty has proven to be as harmful as the Trojan horse was to the ancient Greeks.
The statue did not come with that poem. It was added later..............
“I lift my lamp beside the golden door”
There is a door.
We have no problem with “legal” immigrants. It’s the illegal ones that are a problem. Why can’t everybody see that?...............
Because in practical terms, it’s nearly impossible to be a “legal” immigrant. To keep the current immigration laws intact, AND actually enforce them, would mean an immense decline in the volume of immigration. You may like that, but it’s too glib to say, oh it’s just the illegal ones that we don’t like. They’re practically all illegal.
The SoL is just a statue of Queen Semiramis (wife of Nimrod) on steroids.
The Statue of Liberty is just fine. That stupid poem can dumped in the circular file, though.
The statue of Liberty was never intended to be an invitation.
Free in the sense of freedom as conceived in the original American ideal (what we today would call old fashioned liberalism, which is a race-blind, class-blind meritocracy). "Send" is also figurative in this poem -- the governments in those places would usually find such "refuse" handy to enslave.
To keep the current immigration laws intact, AND actually enforce them, would mean an immense GROWTH in the volume of GOVERNMENT immigration ENFORCEMENT employees. If the Left, who so love to “grow the government”, were simply after that end, they would relish the chance to do so, but they don’t. They choose to ignore the problem and demonize the right for trying to solve it. There is a reason................
We need far fewer legal immigrants as well. We are importing poverty.
“The wretched refuse of your teeming shore...”
Describes my family to a “T”...
Good point.
This is no longer the 1870s when America needed millions more people to populate this growing country, when America had no significant foreign enemies.
We’re still will to accept those who are willing to work and be Americans, but not those who will be parasites and fifth-column enemies.
Why do we let anyone get away with calling us a “democracy”? Democracies always fail, because it allows a minority to over rule the majority, and the majority to over rule the minority. Examples, the few minority offended by religious displays in public, on the other side the majority demanding that an individual watch his/her body fat. Democracy's end in totalitarianism.
We are a democratic REPUBLIC. Yet D.C. has far over reached their jurisdiction abetted by weak governors and state houses that cede their authority to Washington jocking for a place at the Federal troth .
As far as I know, so far, no one has agreed to be governed by anything other than the Constitution of the United States. Now there is a throw the bums out attitude towards any politician who doesn't remember that fact.
About one million immigrants become new U.S. citizens every year. Doesn't seem "impossible" to me.
Excellent point!
It was a leftist/liberal add on in 1903.
Keep the statue, but replace the plaque with something more relevant to 21st century America.
Hahahahahahaha!!!!!!! When President Reagan signed the Immigration Reform and Control Act of 1986, he opened the floodgates to illegal immigration we experienced in the 1990's and 2000's. I know "real" conservatives refuse to acknowledge this stark fact, but it is a fact nevertheless. Go ahead, regurgitate all the excuses "real" conservatives make for this, one of the two biggest mistakes President Reagan made while in office. You will just prove once again that blind hyper partisanship is not just a leftist characteristic.
“They’re practically all illegal.”
Thank you for being so upfront with your prejudices.
“We are importing poverty.”
That explains why we’re so poor. It all makes perfect sense now.
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