Cat Fancy wrote:
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!
Early in the thread someone quoted Emma Lazarus's lines, the ones that some woollyminded fool nailed to the Statue of Liberty, as a result of which some people believe the Goddess of Liberty and the 'wretched refuse' of unbridled and illegal immigration, are somehow connected.
They are not, and from time to time petitions are drawn up to remove the unfortunate lines that don't belong there. The Goddess of Liberty colossus was a birthday present from the Republic of France, commemorating both our nations' throwing off the yoke of "tyranny" and monarchy.
The gift could just as easily have been a thirty-storey-high guillotine (since a guillotine stood beside the original Goddess at the Place de Revolution).
This has nothing to do with the poor illegal African, and we all wish him the best.