The backlash against Acting Director of US Citizenship and Immigration Services Ken Cuccinelli was immediate.  Swift backlash, condemnation, and ridicule, while appearing flabbergasted, is how it’s done nowadays in the nation’s Capitol and newsrooms across these United States.  What could have Cuccinelli said, on behalf of President Trump, that enraged the leftists?

The announcement was simple to understand.  President Donald Trump will continue to enforce long-standing immigration law.  The rule announced on Monday by Cuccinelli dictates that legal immigrants that want to stay in this country must not be on the government nipple.  Also, those immigrants seeking green cards to work in the United States must demonstrate that they will not need government assistance such as food stamps and Medicaid / Medicare.

 On Tuesday, Cuccinelli was asked by NPR’s Rachel Martin if he agreed with the words etched in the plaque mounted on the base of the Statue of Liberty.  The famous words on the plaque are a poem titled “The New Colossus.”  It was written in 1883 by Emma Lazarus, and the plaque with her words was placed on the Statue of Liberty in 1903.  Please note; the poem is not law.  It is a long-standing, beautiful sentiment that Americans have pointed to with pride.  What follows is the poem in its entirety. 

 The New Colossus

Not like the brazen giant of Greek fame,
With conquering limbs astride from land to land;
Here at our sea-washed, sunset gates shall stand
A mighty woman with a torch, whose flame
Is the imprisoned lightning, and her name
Mother of Exiles. From her beacon-hand
Glows world-wide welcome; her mild eyes command
The air-bridged harbor that twin cities frame.
“Keep, ancient lands, your storied pomp!” cries she
With silent lips. “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-tossed to me,
I lift my lamp beside the golden door!”

Responding to NPR’s Rachel Martin’s question whether he thought the words etched into the Statue of Liberty were still relevant, Cuccinelli responded, “Uh, they certainly are,” “Give me your tired and your poor who can stand on their own two feet and who will not become a public charge.” 

 Predictably, the liberal media went nuts!   Cuccinelli wants to change the words on the Statue of Liberty they screamed!  Oh the humanity!  Make the bad man go away!  But rather than going away Cuccinelli said that those words on the Statue of Liberty were directed towards Europe.  It took exactly 5 seconds for the left to fully shift into filth gear and sling the 2020 slim – RACIST, RACIST, RACIST!  It does not matter that indeed, European immigration was the primary immigration in the early 1900’s.  Arizona and New Mexico were not states until 1912!  So yes liberal media troublemakers – the poor, huddled masses yearning to breathe free that Emma Lazarus was envisioning were primarily from Europe.  This is fact. 

 Another fact that is a wrench in the liberal media deceit wheel is the fact that the Food Stamps Act did not become law until 1964 and Medicare / Medicaid did not get enacted until 1965.  So yes, the United States welcomed the poor, huddled masses in the early 1900’s – but the federal government did not feed the immigrants, nor did it provide them medical care paid for by U.S. taxpayers! 

 And that’s the point of the rule announced by Cuccinelli; the U.S. taxpayers should not be paying for food and healthcare for non-citizen immigrants in the United States.  This rule does not apply only to brown immigrants.  It applies to all immigrants. 

It is the liberal media that made this about race because it is the race card that they hope with trump Trump in 2020.  Rather than recognizing that it is fiscally responsible to protect taxpayer dollars from being used for non-citizen immigrants, the leftists lead with proclamations that the regulation announced by Ken Cuccinelli makes it easier for immigration officials to reject green cards and visa applications.  They write and spew this thought as if that’s the goal rather than focusing on the truth – paying for food and healthcare for non-citizen immigrants in the United States with taxpayer dollars is not something the majority of working American men and women support. 

Notes: Between 1900 and 1915, more than 15 million immigrants arrived in the United States.  That was about equal to the number of immigrants who had arrived in the previous 40 years combined.  In 1910, three fourths of New York City’s population was either immigrants or first generation Americans (i.e. the sons and daughters of immigrants).

 Not only were the numbers of immigrants swelling, the countries from which they came had changed dramatically as well.  Unlike earlier immigrants, the majority of the newcomers after 1900 came from non-English speaking European countries.  The principal source of immigrants was now southern and eastern Europe, especially Italy, Poland, and Russia – countries quite different in culture and language from the United States.  The so-called “new immigrants” had difficulty adjusting to life here. 

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