Mike Lukovich cartoon: The Statue of Liberty Got Deported

[pampango]

See also: The State Economic Benefits of Passing the DREAM Act by Juan Carlos Guzmán and Raúl C. Jara

State-by-state analysis demonstrates how 2.1 million undocumented youth would add $329 billion to our economy and result in 1.4 million new jobs.

http://www.americanprogress.org/cartoon/2012/10/02/40222/the-statue-of-liberty-got-deported/

Perhaps she realized that her inscription is no longer relevant in the modern United States.

"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!"

France's population is 19% foreign born; that of the US is 13% foreign born. A statue celebrating immigration (at least in part) may be more comfortable in France than in the US.

[rfranklin]

1. I find this hard to believe...after all she's white and European...

I never hear any of the people concerned with illegal imiigration mentioning the millions of Polish people and other Europeans who come here illegally.

[pampango]

2. I think there has always been resistance to immigrants even if they were Irish or German.

The Know Nothings were one of the first anti-immigrant parties and that was back in the 1840's.

Everyone loves the immigrants of past generations (immigration plays an almost mystical role in our cultural history), but almost no one loves immigrants as they are actually arriving. And that was true whether the immigrants were mostly coming from Europe (the Irish, Germans and Italians), Asia (Chinese, Japanese and Filipinos) or Latin America (Mexico and elsewhere).