The statue is a symbol of liberty, for those who wish to live in peaceful co-existance and mutual respect in the "Greatest Nation on Earth".
It is not, as her poem suggests, a blanket invitation to the "The wretched refuse of your teeming shore."
Some of that "wretched refuse" is living among us, and scheming to destroy us.
Our immigration policys need to be revised, yesterday.
I'm not blanket anti-immigrant. I am a grandson of immigrants. But they came here to share in America's promise(Thank God), to cook in her restaurants, to fire boilers in her Army Corps of Engineers, to sew in her clothing factorys, and to clean her hotel rooms. They and their progeny served and fought in her Military.
They loved their adopted Nation, and instilled that love in my parents and me.
They did not seek to destroy her.
Governments so fragile as that may need a little destabilizing.