Since 1886, the Statue of Liberty has stood on Liberty Island as a welcome sign to immigrants entering America. On the base of the Statue of Liberty is the poem The New Colossus, by Emma Lazarus. The poem reads,
“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!"
This is a reflection of all that America stands for. Today, there is a national debate about immigration. While numerous people want a freer immigration process, there are other people who want a tighter immigration reform. America has been accepting immigrants for decades and should continue to do so. The ideas of living the American dream, living by the fourteenth amendment, and living in the land of opportunity are the three main reasons why an untold amount of people sought out to live in America. In his book, The Epic of America, James Truslow defined the American Dream as a place where …show more content…
As tension grows in the area of immigration laws, people are beginning to question the beliefs that our country was founded on. The poem at the base of the Statue of Liberty coincides with the words of the Constitution. They both express the importance of equal protection of the law and the acceptance of all people. All of the immigrants entering our country allow our population to thrive. In a Ted Talk, Ben Huh mentions, “More than a third of all American technology start-ups have at least one immigrant co-founder.” If Sergey Brin did not immigrate to the America from Moscow, Russia, then Google may have never existed. If John W. Nordstrom did not immigrate to America from Sweden, then Nordstrom may have never existed. If Andrew Chern and Peggy Chern did not immigrate to America from Myanmar, then Panda Express may have never
“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!"
This is a reflection of all that America stands for. Today, there is a national debate about immigration. While numerous people want a freer immigration process, there are other people who want a tighter immigration reform. America has been accepting immigrants for decades and should continue to do so. The ideas of living the American dream, living by the fourteenth amendment, and living in the land of opportunity are the three main reasons why an untold amount of people sought out to live in America. In his book, The Epic of America, James Truslow defined the American Dream as a place where …show more content…
As tension grows in the area of immigration laws, people are beginning to question the beliefs that our country was founded on. The poem at the base of the Statue of Liberty coincides with the words of the Constitution. They both express the importance of equal protection of the law and the acceptance of all people. All of the immigrants entering our country allow our population to thrive. In a Ted Talk, Ben Huh mentions, “More than a third of all American technology start-ups have at least one immigrant co-founder.” If Sergey Brin did not immigrate to the America from Moscow, Russia, then Google may have never existed. If John W. Nordstrom did not immigrate to America from Sweden, then Nordstrom may have never existed. If Andrew Chern and Peggy Chern did not immigrate to America from Myanmar, then Panda Express may have never