Something to think about...

Give me your tired, your poor,
Your huddled masses yearning to be free.
The wretched refuse of your teeming shore,
Send these, the homeless, the tempest-tossed, to me:
I lift my lamp beside the golden door.

--Emma Lazarus


This poem is inscribed at the foot of the Statue of Liberty in New York. These words are an inspiration to people the world over, who suffer oppression--due to cultural, political, or economic factors(or a combination of these).

There has been a lot of talk lately regarding immigration in the U.S. Many people have talked about tightening our borders, restricting entrance to people from other countries.

What kind of country is America to be? Are we to dim the lamp beside the golden door?


"It is possible to read the history of this country as one long struggle to extend the liberties established in our constitution to everyone in America."

--Molly Ivins