Immigration Thought

I've something to say to those who would close our country's borders. Emma Lazarus did not write,

"Keep your tired, your poor,
Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free,
For they aren't good enough to clean our floor.
The wretched refuse of your teeming shore
Is but worthless flotsam at our door.
Keep these, your homeless, tempest-tost from me,
for I've closed the gate and barred the golden door!"

In fact, she wrote,

"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-tost to me,
I lift my lamp beside the golden door!"

We live in neither Utpoia nor Eden. Rather, we live in the real, imperfect world, with real, imperfect people. These united states of America and their people stand for tolerance and opportunity. If we rid this land of tolerance and opportunity, then we, the people, will be the first to lose our liberty and our freedom.