Give me

[Jackpine Radical]

your tired, your poor,
Your huddled masses, yearning to breath free,
The wretched refuse of your teeming shore,
Send these, the homeless, tempest tost to me,
I lift my lamp beside the golden door.

(Unless, of course, they have Indian ancestry and speak Spanish.)

[prairierose]

1. Jackpine, I wonder if most of the people protesting ....

the presence of children fleeing violence have ever heard or read " The New Colossus by Emma Lazarus.....

The New Colossus

Not like the brazen giant of Greek fame,

With conquering limbs astride from land to land;

Here at our sea-washed, sunset gates shall stand

A mighty woman with a torch, whose flame

Is the imprisoned lightning, and her name

Mother of Exiles. From her beacon-hand

Glows world-wide welcome; her mild eyes command

The air-bridged harbor that twin cities frame.

"Keep ancient lands, your storied pomp!" cries she

With silent lips. "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,

I lift my lamp beside the golden door!"

http://www.libertystatepark.com/emma.htm

[Jackpine Radical]

2. Still sends those chills…

[prairierose]

5. That is exactly what I have always thought about it....

to me, a descendant of immigrants, this has always embodied the true ideal of America......

[herding cats]

3. Very well said.

We're nation of immigrants. Yet somehow we always manage to find specific groups we love to deny immigrant status to. It may change throughout the centuries, but the exclusion is always there. We simply have to have some group we deem not worthy which we can think the rest of us are better than and blame all our woes on.

[Cleita]

4. There was a woman at the protest, a white gray haired grandma type who said,

"Americans need to take back this country."

If I had photoshop skills I would take that quote and put it on a photo of Native Americans, maybe those who survived the Trail of Tears or other genocide. I would make sure those flag waving racists saw it.

Also, what do they have against Spanish, a European language?



Finally, Murietta was once owned by a Spanish man named Juan Murietta.