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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