That is a poem on a plaque where immigrants came ashore and
were kept in isolation quarantine for weeks while their
health and skills were checked. If we had a Ellis Island
along the Mexican border, it might apply.



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| Give me 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 door.
|
| "Larry Dighera" wrote in message
| ...
| On Fri, 31 Mar 2006 15:14:00 GMT, Jose

| wrote in
::
|
| While children of illegal aliens are currently
considered to be US
| citizens, perhaps it's time to amend the law
(retroactively) to
| exclude the children of those who cross the US border
ILLEGALLY from
| that right.
|
| It's the children's fault?
|
| If the US immigration law hadn't been broken by the
parents, their
| children would have been born outside the US, and been
ineligible for
| immediate US citizenship. To reward criminal conduct is
unjust (with
| the apparent exception of the Bush administration).
|
|
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