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Comment by madhacker | Hacker News Reader

So much for "Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free." We have installed a despotic ruler and his cronies.

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With the history classes I remember, I'm starting to feel that this won't end well.

Peace in Europe now seems like nothing more than the remnants of a dream, just like the American dream.

Maybe we've reached a place where this quote from Catch 22 (also sampled in Survivor Guilt from Rise Against) is more relevant than ever :

"Rome was destroyed Greece was destroyed, Persia was destroyed Spain was destroyed All great countries are destroyed Why not yours? How much longer do you think your country will last? Forever?"

We lost that concept way before Trump.

Any immigration law that gates entry likely runs afoul of the poem on the statue of liberty. Blocking entry from specific countries may be a gray area, but anything that blocks based on merit is a problem and those laws have existed for quite some time now.

A fellow ellis island enjoyer?

Despite the poem, Ellis Island has always turned away individuals with known criminal records (although a 'known' record was much rarer at the time) and anyone they thought was likely to become a public charge. Our immigration policy in the previous 4 years was actually significantly more permissive than when that poem was put on that statue.

It absolutely is not more permissive today because legal pathways to migration are hideously convoluted, and let a sliver of the people that ellis island did.

Imagine migrating million and millions of tired, poor and the huddled masses from all over the world to America?

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