Mary Trump - A Nation of Immigrants Turns on Them
My friends and I grew up thinking it was a good thing that America was a country of immigrants; that the people who came here were drawn by the promise of a better life, a strong democracy, and the chance to participate in the so-called American dream; that our different traditions, cultures, and beliefs made us stronger.
My great-grandparents and my grandmother on my dad’s side all came through Ellis Island, so I believed the Emma Lazarus poem, engraved on a bronze affixed to the statue’s pedestal, meant something:
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!
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Republicans have long eroded the notion that immigrants are a vital part of our society and, especially during Donald’s tenure in the White House, they’ve weaponized the issue of immigration to a degree we hadn’t seen in modern American politics.
https://www.marytrump.org/p/a-nation-of-immigrants-turns-on-them