Why Citing The Statue Of Liberty To Promote Immigration Is Dumb

GURPS

INGSOC
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Why Citing The Statue Of Liberty To Promote Immigration Is Dumb


In a heated exchange, CNN's Jim Acosta and White House aide Stephen Miller sparred over President Trump's immigration policy. Acosta started his line of questioning citing the Emma Lazarus famous poem "The New Colossus," which is memorialized on a bronze plaque at the base of the Statue of Liberty.

What you’re proposing, or what the president’s proposing here, does not sound like it’s in keeping with American tradition when it comes to immigration. The Statue of Liberty says, "give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses," it doesn’t say anything about speaking English or being able to be a computer programmer. Aren’t you trying to change what it means to be an immigrant coming into this country if you’re telling them, you have to speak English, can’t people learn how to speak English when they get here?

Miller slammed Acosta's idiocy, claiming that Acosta assumed that immigrants from non-Anglophone countries weren't capable of learning English prior to immigrating to the United States, as well as for advocating for a loose immigration policy that would harm legal immigrants and various American communities. He also said that the Statue of Liberty does not constitute United States immigration policy, much to Acosta's chagrin. Watch the full exchange below: [video at link]

Since Miller slapped Acosta for appealing to the authority of the Statue of Liberty, many on the Left went ballistic.
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Despite the collective outrage that the Left projected over Miller's dismissal of the poem, it forgot where its words are codified in federal law. You can find it below:

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that is correct, it isn't
 

Wishbone

New Member
Like the thread about Joe Arpaio? Where so-called "righties" were telling a narrative that has nothing to do with the law?

Narratives aren't limited to one party.
Joe Arpaio had everything to do with the law... The law the Feds were not enforcing.

The statue of liberty has exactly ZERO to do with anything legal.
 

vraiblonde

Board Mommy
PREMO Member
Patron
Besides that the Statue of Liberty poem is just that...a poem. It's not the law, or even an immigration policy. It's just a poem and has no legal standing with regard to immigration law.

Effing DUH.

It's painful to have to point that out to supposed adults.
 

Chris0nllyn

Well-Known Member
Joe Arpaio had everything to do with the law... The law the Feds were not enforcing.

The statue of liberty has exactly ZERO to do with anything legal.

His state created a law that was pre-empted by Federal Law, SCOTUS struck it down, thus no more law for Joe to follow. He continued to follow a non-existant state law, so the feds told him to cut it. He say "f you guys", and kept going. Hence the contempt charge.

You can argue the feds weren't doing a good enough job (when do they?), but given the fact that both ICE and Border Patrol did the same job they did under Bush as they did under Obama, and the same job under Trump, it's a bit hysterical to say they wern't enforcing federal immigration laws. The fact is, your narrative is that. That the govt. is doing nothing, so it's okay for a county sheriff to go off on his own and do things the highest levels of the judicial system told him not to.

I'd argue that is "apply[ing] something that fits your narrative but has nothing to do with the law", but understand if you disagree with that.

You are correct though, as is Miller. Lady Liberty doesn't make laws, and Miller was correct in his facts.
 

Clem72

Well-Known Member
Besides that the Statue of Liberty poem is just that...a poem. It's not the law, or even an immigration policy. It's just a poem and has no legal standing with regard to immigration law.

Effing DUH.

It's painful to have to point that out to supposed adults.

What poem? I have it on the highest authority that the only thing the statue says is "Across the sea, these twins stand resolute; to preserve what we are looking for. 1876."
 
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