The French gave us a statue
The French Connection
The Statue of Liberty was a gift from the French people commemorating the alliance of France and the United States during the American Revolution. Yet, it represented much more to those individuals who proposed the gift.
In 1865, Edouard de Laboulaye (a French political thinker, U.S. Constitution expert, and abolitionist) proposed that a monument be built as a gift from France to the United States in order to commemorate the perseverance of freedom and democracy in the United States and to honor the work of the late president Abraham Lincoln. Laboulaye hoped that by calling attention to the recent achievements of the United States, the French people would be inspired to create their own democracy in the face of a repressive monarchy. In 1865, France was divided between people who were still committed to the monarchy and people who supported the Enlightenment ideals (the belief that people had natural rights to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness). It was the hope of many French liberals that democracy would prevail and that freedom and justice for all would be attained.
The Tired and Poor Who Make America Great
A pro-Trump county rebuked the president. It deserves our gratitude.
THE ECONOMIC IMPACT OF REFUGEE ADMISSION & RESETTLEMENT
Utah Governor to Trump: ‘Allow Us to Accept More Refugees’
“But that’s probably not the response Trump had in mind when he signed an executive order in September saying refugees would only be resettled in places where both state and local officials indicated in writing their willingness to receive refugees. The intent of that order, to undercut refugee resettlement, was underscored by the Trump administration lowering the annual refugee admissions cap to 18,000, the lowest annual ceiling in the nearly three-decade history of the US refugee resettlement program. In October, the first month of the new fiscal year, the number of refugees admitted to the United States reached a new low: zero.”
https://www.hrw.org/news/2019/12/09/utah-governor-trump-allow-us-accept-more-refugees
Sad thing?
The group least likely to think the U.S. has a responsibility to accept refugees? Evangelicals.
Tougher US asylum policy follows in Europe’s footsteps
Trump Will Deny Immigrant Visas to Those Who Can’t Pay for Health Care
A NATION BUILT BY IMMIGRANTS
SAD – Only 2 Iraqi translators who worked with U.S. troops got U.S. visas last year
Photos: The Statue of Liberty, Mother of Exiles
A Wealth Test for U.S. Citizenship
America’s Immigration Crisis Goes Beyond the Border
The Trump administration is trying to rewrite America’s founding principles
Trump’s public charge plan punishes legal immigrants for America’s existing income inequality
Trump is rewriting the meaning of America. Literally.
Trump official suggests famous Statue of Liberty sonnet is too nice to immigrants
Trump official has talked about undocumented immigrants as ‘invaders’ since at least 2007
Corporate employees revolt against Trump’s immigration policies
Trump to deny green cards to immigrants receiving public benefits
READ: ‘Public charge’ rule to limit access to green cards and visas
Trump’s war on refugees is tearing down US’s life-changing resettlement program
Someone wrote a poem for it
The New Colossus
The New Colossus
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!”
Emma Lazarus
November 2, 1883
Neil Diamond sang a song
John Wayne recited a poem
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