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Re:U.S. State Department Pauses Immigrant Visa Applications by darkstar999 on Thursday August 27, 2026 @10:00AM (#49465038)
"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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Re:U.S. State Department Pauses Immigrant Visa Applications by xvxvx on Thursday August 27, 2026 @10:28AM (#49465476)
A poem on a plaque on a foreign statue, written 107 years after the formation of the United States is neither legally binding nor central to what the US is. And the poem doesn’t endorse visa scammers.
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Re:U.S. State Department Pauses Immigrant Visa Applications by wan23 on Thursday August 27, 2026 @01:28PM (#49468255)
It's not legally binding, but it is central to what the US is and has been. That's why they put the poem there, and that's why Americans welcomed the gift and erected the statue, and that's why it has been considered to be one of our most cherished symbols ever since.
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Re:U.S. State Department Pauses Immigrant Visa Applications by ddtaylor on Thursday August 27, 2026 @10:10AM (#49465208)
To be fair that's a poem written a hundred years later.
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