rumitoid wrote:
The Land of Immigrant welcome. A safe place and home to the poor, desperate. From the Statue of Liberty: 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 arbor 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!"
And Trump wants to douse that Flame. Please get it. Please. We are the accepted refuge of liberty...or once were. Under Trump, no longer. Our exceptionalism was based on "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!" Trump ended that basic America Contract with the world. His Muslim ban and attacks on our Mexican neighbors disgraces the precepts of this nation. We are no longer exceptionable under Trump. We are a tawdry collection of bigots and populists, yearning to be free of browns and blacks.
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Our country welcomed 2 million every year for decades. This has not changed under Trump. We are the most welcoming country to immigrants in the world. Until the Syrian refugee problem; we accepted more people into our country a year than all other countries in the world combined. But the term immigrant is not the same as illegal alien nor refugee.