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She Was Never About Those Huddled Masses

Check out this article by Roberto Suro, a professor at the University of Southern California Annenberg School for Communication. He argues that the Statue of Liberty was never intended to represent a homing beacon to direct the poor and downtrodden to our shores. Here’s an excerpt; click the link below.

While Lady Liberty has stood immobile in New York Harbor, immigration has risen and fallen and risen again. Lazarus — and Reagan, even more so — dreamed that the unchanging values she symbolizes give us an innate talent for being a nation of immigrants. Wrong then and wrong now. Like Americans of every era, we’ll be held to account for how we manage the door and for what happens to immigrants and their offspring when they live among us.

Roberto Suro — The Statue of Liberty’s Real Stand – washingtonpost.com