The New Colossus
By Emma Lazarus, 1883
Not like the brazen giant of Greek fame,
With conquering limbs astride from land to land;
Here at our sea-washed, sunset gates shall stand
A mighty woman with a torch, whose flame
Is the imprisoned lightning, and her name
Mother of Exiles. From her beacon-hand
Glows world-wide welcome; her mild eyes command
The air-bridged harbor that twin cities frame.
"Keep, ancient lands, your storied pomp!" cries she
With silent lips. "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!"
I don't know why they all claim that the United States is the place to make your dreams come true. At times you can feel proud to be an American but most of the time im not. I know that being an American gives me a lot of privileges, but how do my privileges help my family? My family is from Mexico and they don't have any privileges. Now at this time immagration wants to take out all the immagrants from the United States. I don't believe in what the Staue of Liberty represents because it's not true. We can see it's not true because with the horrible tragedy that hit Haiti, they should have proved it then when they had a chance. I know that the United States was one of the biggest help out there but they didn't prove what the Staute of Liberty represents.
The poem above says that all those people that are homeless and starving and things like that to bring them here. I think if this were true they would have brought people from Hati here and get stabled here until their home country is standing once more. Lots of people think this is the dream place but it's reallly not that great. here in the United States we have a lot of immagrants scared and always hiding because they aren't aloud here. When is the real meaning of the Statue of Liberty going to be brought to truth?
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