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DeWayfarer · 61-69, M
Well the current administration has tried to make it less significant by attempting to reword the plaque...
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/statue-of-liberty-poem-emma-lazarus-quote-changed-trump-immigration-official-ken-cuccinelli-after-public-charge-law/#app
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The Trump administration's top immigration official reworked the famous words on the Statue of Liberty in an interview Tuesday, saying America will only embrace immigrants who can "stand on their own two feet" and "not become a public charge." In a subsequent interview, Ken Cuccinelli went a step further, saying the poem referred to "people coming from Europe."
His comments came a day after the administration announced a new rule that will reject green cards for immigrants who might rely on government assistance.
Early on Tuesday, NPR's Rachel Martin asked Cuccinelli, the acting head of U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services, if he agreed that the words etched on the Statue of Liberty are part of the American ethos. The poem, written by Emma Lazarus, says: "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!"
"Uh, they certainly are," Cuccinelli replied. "Give me your tired and your poor who can stand on their own two feet and who will not become a public charge."[/quote]
See also:
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/08/14/opinion/ken-cuccinelli-emma-lazarus.html
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-7352703/Trumps-immigration-chief-REWRITES-plaque-Statue-Liberty-push-immigration-crackdown.html
https://www.npr.org/2019/08/13/750726795/immigration-chief-give-me-your-tired-your-poor-who-can-stand-on-their-own-2-feet
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/statue-of-liberty-poem-emma-lazarus-quote-changed-trump-immigration-official-ken-cuccinelli-after-public-charge-law/#app
[quote]
The Trump administration's top immigration official reworked the famous words on the Statue of Liberty in an interview Tuesday, saying America will only embrace immigrants who can "stand on their own two feet" and "not become a public charge." In a subsequent interview, Ken Cuccinelli went a step further, saying the poem referred to "people coming from Europe."
His comments came a day after the administration announced a new rule that will reject green cards for immigrants who might rely on government assistance.
Early on Tuesday, NPR's Rachel Martin asked Cuccinelli, the acting head of U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services, if he agreed that the words etched on the Statue of Liberty are part of the American ethos. The poem, written by Emma Lazarus, says: "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!"
"Uh, they certainly are," Cuccinelli replied. "Give me your tired and your poor who can stand on their own two feet and who will not become a public charge."[/quote]
See also:
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/08/14/opinion/ken-cuccinelli-emma-lazarus.html
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-7352703/Trumps-immigration-chief-REWRITES-plaque-Statue-Liberty-push-immigration-crackdown.html
https://www.npr.org/2019/08/13/750726795/immigration-chief-give-me-your-tired-your-poor-who-can-stand-on-their-own-2-feet