[Billy_bob_bob]

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.

[dougherty]

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.

I feel the same way. Pro-immigrant people speak of it as if it's a part of the Constitution, to try and justify today's out of control immigration problem. But it most definitely, of course, is not.