The president has created a climate of fear and division for undocumented immigrants and citizens alike, and we will not allow this to continue
In 1883, the American poet Emma Lazarus penned a short sonnet as part of an effort to raise money for a fantastical-sounding statue that the French people wanted to give their American friends to honor the two nations’ shared values of liberty and justice.
By the time Lazarus’s poem, The New Colossus, was eventually mounted in bronze at the base of the Statue of Liberty, the third great wave of American immigration had begun. It was 1903, and over the next five decades, millions of immigrants fleeing war, persecution and poverty would catch their first glimpse of the new world as their ships entered New York harbor under the fierce and watchful gaze of the “Mother of Exiles”.
from The Guardian https://ift.tt/2tLUYMv
