I'm sorry I have to point this out, but immigrants these days sure got a lot of damn nerve

[MiddleFingerMom]

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[Swede]

1. 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!"

Emma Lazarus, 1883

[DavidDvorkin]

2. Yeah, but the statue immigrated from France

And Emma Lazarus was a Jew.

So clearly that poem and the statue don't represent Real America(TM).

[Angry Dragon]

3. Made me smile

[MiddleFingerMom]

4. The first comment -- a wonderful dream remembered now by too few...

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...the second comment -- a sad "reality" embraced now by too many.
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[jwirr]

5. So true. Only the Native Americans can claim to have met us on the

shore - but rumor has it that they walked over the straight to get here years before we came. This is the most ironic truth of today.