Cuccinelli rewrites Statue of Liberty poem to make case for limiting immigration

There was no need to provide qualifiers back when the poem was written because in order to survive in the US back then, you had to work your ass off. There weren't any social welfare programs they could tap into indefinitely. Also, back in the early days of US immigration policy, several dis-qualifiers such as criminals, the insane, or "any person unable to take care of him or herself," were put in place. They went on to dis-qualify anarchists, people with epilepsy, beggars, and importers of prostitutes. next communists, labor organizers, and similar activists. Finally, we eventually place quotas on the number of people we could take in.

The fact is, we can't simply let everyone in and we most certainly need to control the flow of illegal entry. Still, there is nothing stopping anyone wanting to come her legally from trying to meet that quota. I don't care if they are rich, poor, black, white, etc... As long as they absorb into the American culture while adding some of their own and they work to become productive members of this country. the poem didn't say "give me your tired and your poor..." so we can give you free stuff indefinitely.

It happens.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Immigration_Act_of_1907

MSgt Neil Greenfield Exactly.