"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!"
2007-05-12 06:13:43 · 17 answers · asked by Anonymous in Politics & Government ➔ Immigration
Well maybe there should be a disclaimer after the "poem"...like "this does not necessarily reflect the policies of our government."
Most americans I know don't like immigration of any kind whether legal or illegal.
2007-05-12 06:33:44 · update #1
This country consume about 54% of world resources. Where do you want people to go?
immigrants are just trying to survive. Being illegal is Not a crime. Is it a crime trying to eat and help their families?
Is it a crime to work for the cheapest salary just to afford their expenses?
Is it a crime not to have been born here?
The only way this country has gotten wealthy and strong is by exploiting smaller countries. Immigrants come here to survive.
This country took Mexican land some time ago. Just look a the Spanish name: Los Angeles, California, New Mexico.
"God gave everyone a VISA the day they were born" Like a song says.
2007-05-12 07:56:42 · answer #1 · answered by LawNerd 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The extremists who want to ban all immigration are a small segment of the US as a whole. I believe that legal immigration is acceptable to most Americans. The illegal immigration is the problem. It has decimated Texas, Arizona and New Mexico's health care systems, School's are struggling to teach kids of illegals with a diminishing Tax base. The legal immigrants have job skills and are valuable to our communities. They did everything correctly to become a part of our citizenry. But the others take resources away from our poor and old people by using our hospitals and never paying the bills. By a cash society so they don't pay taxes or register anything on the radar about their being here.
2007-05-12 06:43:18 · answer #2 · answered by redd headd 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
That was a poem written by a school girt in a contest. At the time it enccouraged people to immigrate to our country in order to help build it up as a new country. At that time there was no population explosion. People came here "LEGALLY" through Ellis Island, respected our laws and were proud to become citizens of the USA. We no longer NEED to encourage people, they are clamoring to get here, legally and illegally, as well as disrespectfully. We cannot continue to provide clean water, housing, jobs, a stable infrastructure to the numbers now entering our country. (Legally AND illegally, from anywhere) ALL immigration should be reduced to 200,000 per year in order to get a control over the enormous NUMBERS which will eventually destroy the very reason people want to come here to begin with.
2007-05-12 11:06:23 · answer #3 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I have a proposition for Americans - if you say you like legal immigration, but not illegal immigration, let's change the date in which people were here legally and all those who came afterwards without an invitation from those here legally. Let's change that date to 1607 and now all those British, French, German, Irish, Spanish, Portuguese, Greek, Italian immigrants can go home and apply for citizenship.
2007-05-12 10:39:11 · answer #4 · answered by Shelley 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Some Americans are anti-immigration - doesn't mean everyone is, or that most are, or that it's government policy. The country was founded by immigrants, and a large percentage of citizens can trace their ancestry back to other countries.
Having immigration restrictions doesn't mean that nobody is welcome. Just means that it's not a situation where anyone can do anything they want to without restriction.
2007-05-12 11:15:22 · answer #5 · answered by Judy 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Because freedom of expression is the American way! The poem placed at the base of the statue of liberty is a beautiful poem, not a law, or the mandate on American immigration policy.
Will a gallon jug hold a gallon & a half without spilling any out?
2007-05-12 06:21:54 · answer #6 · answered by RENEGADE. 3 · 3⤊ 1⤋
Not Ture!!! We are NOT anti-immigrant; we are anti-illegal alien. I do not mind if people come to America the right way and help this country. I don't like people coming here "illegal" and then demanding everything from the government which they did not do in their home country.
2007-05-12 06:58:20 · answer #7 · answered by John H 1 · 1⤊ 0⤋
If you're telling the truth...americans I know don't like even legal immigrants, you better change the crowd you're hanging with.
We like LEGAL and not il legal. We like the rule of law, which you have broken the moment you flat foot the fence.
Get a life or change the crowd you're hanging with.
2007-05-12 06:43:39 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 0⤋
Stating a false or extremely exaggerated premise then asking a rhetorical question is really in poor taste. It is used in propaganda frequently to instill in people some notion that they want propagated but really doesn't belong in rational debate on issues... Please refrain from doing this in the future.
2007-05-12 06:57:59 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
it's just a poem, not the motto of US Immigration and Nationalization Service, and not US government policy.
2007-05-12 06:29:08 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋