I know there will be critics of the Qatar gift, flame away.
I was in the sixth grade when I got to visit The Statue.
I still remember it well. We were allowed into the crown but not the torch.
Then in 1903, they added Emma Lazarus's poem to the statue, and it became a symbol of Immigration.
I can live okay with a reasonable number of the “tired, poor, and huddled masses”
provided that we select the ones who will be compatible with, or at least adapt to and support, our nation’s basic moral values — and are not dangerous young men preaching hatred for America, Christians, Jews, Hindus, you name it. And who aren’t entering to run drugs on our streets and into our children’s schools. We’ve allowed millions of “tired, poor huddled masses yearning to breathe free” over the years and MOST of them have worked out very positively for America and themselves.
We know which groups, societies have a high incidence of dangerous people. We should demand that our government screen any prospective immigrants carefully and especially so when they come from those places which experience teaches produce large numbers of problematical people.
And in 1903 the little communists poem was added to the base.
I get so tired of reading the incorrect birth date of the United States of America. It was NOT July 4, 1776 when the individual Colonies declared their independence from Britain. The United States became a sovereign Nation once all the Colonies (some called States) signed the Constitution in 1787, through long drawn out debates.
I think that would be cool.