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Anchor babies: more immigration folly
PROJECT USA ^ | 6-19-02 | ProjectUSA

Posted on 06/23/2002 4:45:33 PM PDT by Registered

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1 posted on 06/23/2002 4:45:33 PM PDT by Registered
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To: Registered; joanie-f; First_Salute
Give us your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free.

The wretched refuse of your teeming shore.

Send these: The homeless, tempest-tossed, to me.

I lift my lamp beside the golden shore.

My wife just sung this to me from memory (1960 Concert Choir I, Monrovia HS)

Maybe America could use an infusion of freedom-loving people, since the natives don't seem to care any more.

2 posted on 06/23/2002 4:56:07 PM PDT by snopercod
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To: Registered
The whole world knows that Uncle Sam is a patsy. This crap has gotta stop.
3 posted on 06/23/2002 4:56:53 PM PDT by rageaholic
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To: snopercod
Do we have to advertise specifically for "wretched refuse"? I think we have enough already.
4 posted on 06/23/2002 4:59:41 PM PDT by rageaholic
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To: Sabertooth; roachie; PoisedWoman
ping
5 posted on 06/23/2002 5:04:16 PM PDT by I_Love_My_Husband
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To: snopercod
To be honest, I hate that poem. It transformed a great gift from France designed to celebrate liberty into the immigrant magnet of the universe. From "melting pot" to "multicultural" to goodness knows what. I would like to see that poem officially removed from the statue of liberty, to be replaced with a single word - "LIBERTY". That is what it was meant to be, a beacon of light unto the world, inspiring others to seek liberty above all. It was not intended to be a magnet for the third world.
6 posted on 06/23/2002 5:07:40 PM PDT by Billy_bob_bob
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7 posted on 06/23/2002 5:15:20 PM PDT by Sabertooth
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To: Sabertooth
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8 posted on 06/23/2002 5:23:12 PM PDT by dennisw
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To: snopercod
Wretched refuse? We don't need no stinkin' "wretched refuse". We have imported too much of it already.
9 posted on 06/23/2002 5:24:12 PM PDT by Tancredo Fan
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10 posted on 06/23/2002 5:24:58 PM PDT by Tancredo Fan
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To: snopercod
This poem by Emma Lazarus is a MYTH and this plaque should be dipped into vat of acid and never repated again. The statue of liberty was not to be a magnet of immigration but a beacon of hope to the whole of the world.
11 posted on 06/23/2002 5:25:05 PM PDT by bok
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To: snopercod
It is just flowery words, not gospel written upon the plaque. Besides it is a gift from France, and when did they have our best interests in mind?

My grandfather came here late in the 19th Century, his twin brother was not allowed in because he was sick. He never was seen again by his family. So the huddled masses used to have to be healthy, able to support themselves fully, or supported by a family member, or a sponsor, and wait in line!!!!!!!. Now we take all the sick, all of the poor, and give the huddled masses everything for free.

12 posted on 06/23/2002 5:30:11 PM PDT by jeremiah
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To: Sabertooth
Now that is one mean looking kitty!

Thought this thread might interest you.

Official Free Republic Position Parallels GOP On Immigration. (No Big Concern?)

13 posted on 06/23/2002 5:30:42 PM PDT by sweetliberty
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To: Tancredo Fan
Thanks for the ping. This is an example of your government NOT at work.
15 posted on 06/23/2002 5:34:35 PM PDT by Brownie74
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To: Registered
Anyone physically in the United States, except those who have diplomatic immunity, is subject to the jurisdiction of the United States. Anyone who commits a crime in the United States can be arrested and tried here, whether they're citizens, tourists or illegal aliens. The last paragraph of the article is wrong. As such, any child born in the United States can constitutionally claim citizenship.
16 posted on 06/23/2002 6:01:07 PM PDT by wimpycat
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To: rageaholic; snopercod; Billy_bob_bob; bok; jeremiah
That idiotic poem was written before the welfare state, before the exodus of the third world, before politicians decided they could steal our money for programs designed to garner votes from the "wretched refuse".

They ought to take a jackhammer to it and throw the damn thing into the Hudson River.

17 posted on 06/23/2002 6:26:14 PM PDT by AAABEST
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California schools are so loaded with anchor babies that they can't function properly. That's OK, we "rich" taxpayers and homeowners will build more schools for them, with Jorge Bush's stamp of approval.
18 posted on 06/23/2002 6:46:21 PM PDT by janetgreen
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That's OK, we "rich" taxpayers and homeowners will build more schools for them, with Jorge Bush's stamp of approval.

Disgusted ping.

19 posted on 06/23/2002 6:51:10 PM PDT by AAABEST
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To: snopercod
The motivation for these mothers-to-be is simple: thanks to a gross misinterpretation of the Fourteenth Amendment, the U.S. grants automatic citizenship to any child born on U.S. soil.

I've got one related to this.

During the time which Haitians were coming by the boatloads to the U.S., they would be rescued by U.S. Coast Guard ships. Once safely on board they would be assigned to a portion of the deck during their trip back to Haiti.

A young Coast Guard Ensign told me that the men would have sex with the pregnant women hoping that they would give birth right there on deck. Seems that they believed, rightly or wrongly that if they gave birth on ship their child would be a citizen and have certain inalienable rights.

Is this correct that their offspring would be citizens? This is a true story.

20 posted on 06/23/2002 7:35:49 PM PDT by The_Media_never_lie
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