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originally posted by: Wayfarer
Just afterwards Steven and Jim have a back and forth on the English speaking requirement for the new immigration policy Trump's put forth, with Jim obviously referencing the lack of 'English Speaking' or a list of countries that are acceptable.
What say you ATS, is the poem indicative of American values or as Steven Miller suggest an afterthought added later and not indicative of American values?
“Keep, ancient lands, your storied pomp!” cries she
With silent lips. “Give me your tired, your poor,
Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free
“Give me your tired, your poor,
Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free,
The wretched refuse of your teeming shore.
In cases so certified the law is mandatory, and the medical certificate is equivalent to exclusion, the board simply applying the legal process necessary for deportation.
Aliens certified by the medical officers as suffering from disability, likely to make them public charges, are also held for examination before the board of special inquiry.
Just afterwards Steven and Jim have a back and forth on the English speaking requirement for the new immigration policy Trump's put forth, with Jim obviously referencing the lack of 'English Speaking' or a list of countries that are acceptable.
originally posted by: Christosterone
...Contrary to whatever rambling this may invoke in your triggered brain...
originally posted by: Gothmog
I bolded that part as evidently you do not understand US Immigration Policy
originally posted by: Wreckclues
Yet not all of the "wretched refuse" were allowed in. Many were declared unfit by being dangerous or contagious, insane or mentally deficient, loathsome or likely to become a public charge, and were deported,
originally posted by: Wayfarer
a reply to: bluesjr
Fair enough. Do you think having closed boarders (or boarders effectively closed except in overwhelmingly important situations) still adheres the the tenets of the poem?