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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