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Monday, June 02, 2025

Americans are an immigrant nation and must welcome them as in "Give me your tired, your poor...."

Echo opinion letter published in the Austin Daily Herald in Austin, Minnesota:
In the past our country has welcomed immigrants. 

Most of them do have good reasons for being here; war in their country, famine or supporting a family. 

Trump and ICE throwing them out of the USA is totally different from what I feel our country should stand for! 

On the Statue of Liberty, the  says “Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free.”* 

That’s the United States I know. Bishop Marriann Edgar Buddle says, “That towns that have a high level of undocumented immigrants have a lower crime rate.”

Thank you to the Brookside School and Albert Lea MN, for having classes for our immigrants.  

From Mary Emery  Albert Lea, city in Minnesota

*"The New Colossus" is a sonnet by American poet Emma Lazarus (1849–1887). She wrote the poem in 1883 to raise money for the construction of a pedestal for the Statue of Liberty (Liberty Enlightening the World).  In 1903, the poem was cast onto a bronze plaque and mounted inside the pedestal's lower level.

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