Leave Emma Lazarus Out of It

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Regardless of what you think our nation’s immigration policy should be today, it shouldn’t be determined by a schmaltzy sonnet written for a different era.

By ROBERTO SURO
August 02, 2017

In the latest SNL-worthy scrum from the White House briefing room, CNN’s Jim Acosta successfully taunted presidential adviser Stephen Miller by arguing that the new Trump immigration proposal violated traditions enshrined by the Statue of Liberty and in particular the Emma Lazarus poem (“Give me your tired … ”) associated with it.

Let’s leave aside Miller’s responses. Like the rest of what he said about the proposal to slash legal immigration by half and concentrate the remainder on high skilled workers, Miller diluted droplets of truth with oceans of demagoguery. Acosta’s simplistic provocation, however, does offer an occasion to think about how immigration gets discussed these days....

http://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2017/08/02/immigration-miller-acosta-emma-lazarus-215452

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