The Statue of Liberty was built to commemorate the end of slavery in America, not immigration, legal or otherwise.
No it wasn’t. Gosh, I cant believe so many here don’t have a clue
Start here
http://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/statue-liberty-was-originally-muslim-woman-180957377/
” But the Statue of Liberty was not intended entirely as a monument to the end of slavery”
https://www.nps.gov/stli/learn/historyculture/black-statue-of-liberty.htm