(January 20, 2018 at 3:21 pm)Wyrd of Gawd Wrote:(January 20, 2018 at 2:38 pm)polymath257 Wrote: Does being from a shithole country mean we shouldn't take someone in? Funny, I thought our principles were exactly the opposite:
“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-tossed, to me:
I lift my lamp beside the golden door.”
― Emma Lazarus (on the Statue of Liberty)
Emma Lazarus was a Zionist who didn't have America's interests as a priority. We should give the damn statue back to the French and stop singing that racist song.
Whatever the politics of the moment, it is how our country was founded and exemplifies the best of our immigrant nation and our values. We accept those from shithole countries *because* they are from shithole countries (like Ireland was, or Eastern Europe...the list goes on and on).