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"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-tosse

"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-tossed to me, I lift my lamp beside the golden door!" Every single scientific study done on immigration shows that immigration benefits the host country, or maybe, to quote Tucker Carlson, it turns out that immigration doesn't really make our country "poorer and dirtier". THOSE are OUR "fundamentally American values".

slumdev 5y ago
> "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-tossed to me, I lift my lamp beside the golden door!" This quote might not be what you wanted to use. Everyone who entered at Ellis Island was a legal immigrant. They didn't pay a coyote to help them jump a fence and elude border patrol.
TMWNN 5y ago
>"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-tossed to me, I lift my lamp beside the golden door!" First, Emma Lazarus's bad poetry was added to the base of the Statue of Liberty 20 years after the statue itself, as a fundraising effort. Second, bad poetry does not policy nor law make. Third, as slumdev's mysteriously crossed-out comment accurately states, in any case, every single person who came through Ellis Island * was a legal immigrant * had passed a medical inspection * had proof of having enough resources to pay for their upkeep in the US, or a US financial sponsor guaranteeing same * was turned away if failing any of the above tests, with no possibility of appeal I, for one, am very much in favor of reinstating such barriers to entering the US. PS - One more thing: Every single person who came through Ellis Island was coming to a country with an enormous demand for unskilled labor. This is no longer true.
- slumdev 5y ago
  > had proof of having enough resources to pay for their upkeep in the US, or a US financial sponsor guaranteeing same So you're saying that even in the good old days of (imaginary) unrestricted immigration, we only took in people who had access to enough money to avoid becoming a public burden?
dang 5y ago
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slumdev 5y ago

> "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-tossed to me, I lift my lamp beside the golden door!" This quote might not be what you wanted to use. Everyone who entered at Ellis Island was a legal immigrant. They didn't pay a coyote to help them jump a fence and elude border patrol.

TMWNN 5y ago

>"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-tossed to me, I lift my lamp beside the golden door!" First, Emma Lazarus's bad poetry was added to the base of the Statue of Liberty 20 years after the statue itself, as a fundraising effort. Second, bad poetry does not policy nor law make. Third, as slumdev's mysteriously crossed-out comment accurately states, in any case, every single person who came through Ellis Island * was a legal immigrant * had passed a medical inspection * had proof of having enough resources to pay for their upkeep in the US, or a US financial sponsor guaranteeing same * was turned away if failing any of the above tests, with no possibility of appeal I, for one, am very much in favor of reinstating such barriers to entering the US. PS - One more thing: Every single person who came through Ellis Island was coming to a country with an enormous demand for unskilled labor. This is no longer true.

slumdev 5y ago
> had proof of having enough resources to pay for their upkeep in the US, or a US financial sponsor guaranteeing same So you're saying that even in the good old days of (imaginary) unrestricted immigration, we only took in people who had access to enough money to avoid becoming a public burden?

dang 5y ago

We've banned this account for using HN for ideological battle. Regardless of ideology, it's not what this site is for. Please don't create accounts to break the site rules with. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html