From: arf@ddsw1.mcs.com (Jack Schmidling)
Subject: Re: STATUE OF IMMIGRATION
Date: Sun, 10 Jan 1993 04:51:25 GMT
Organization: ddsw1.MCS.COM Contributor, Chicago, IL

 
 Article 37019 (20 more) in misc.headlines:
 
 >Except for the American Indian movement - all lobbyists are
 immigrant lobbyists.
 
 I was under the impression that one's children are NOT 
 immigrants but natural born citizens.
 
 <>  The truth is that in 1926, Emma Lazarus successfully 
 lobbied
 >  to get her now famous lines added to the statue.  The result
 >  is that everytime the idea of limiting immigration is
 >  brought up, these lines are quoted and the subject dropped
 >  as just plain un-American.
 >
 
 >and a beautiful poem it is.  She was Jewish you know.
 
 I wonder how beautiful you would think it was if written by, 
 let's say a goose-stepping German.  Or how bout a nice 
 Moslem Arab?  Somehow I suspect, it never would have made it 
 to the Statue of Immigration.
 
 >You're sure it's not the comp<xion of the immigrants that
 bothers you, rather than the complexion of the poem.
 
 It seems that you are the one hung up on complexion of 
 people's skin.
 
 
 >  "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."
 >                 ........................
 >
 
 <Wonderful poem.  Symbolizes everything that is great about
 America.  I udnerstand you were not born here Jack so maybe
 you don't know - but this country was built by that refuse.
 
 WRONG!  This country was built by hard working immigrants 
 with a dream far different from the refuse that is now 
 pouring into the country.  They wanted to be American and 
 have the american dream.  The new wave wants it too but it 
 is the welfare cow they want now and they don't want to be 
 Americans, they want to be hyphenated----- Americans.
 
 >From: cburian@ux4.cso.uiuc.edu (Christopher J Burian)
 Subject: Re: The Blessings of MULTICULTURALISM
 
 >I disagree with you in that I think our borders should be 
 open to anyone who wants to immigrate and then let them fend 
 for themselves.
 
 That is the problem with Libertarinism.  It is all or 
 nothing.  It's the chicken and the egg.  It is far easier to 
 limit immigration than to change every law on the books that 
 pampers the immigrants once they get here.
 
 >From: colten@cbnewsb.cb.att.com (marc.colten)
 >Subject: Re: The Blessings of MULTICULTURALISM
 
 >The bucket was not full then, and I hardly think it's full 
 now.  There are parts of the country that are crowded and
 there are parts that are not.
 
 You are exhibiting an appalling ignorance of ecology, 
 biology and environmental science.
 
 >The funny thing about people on the right is that I've seen 
 the same people put forward the same two arguments:
 
 >1)  All this stuff about "population explosion" is false 
 and  "gloom and doom" stuff.  Why we could all fit into 
 Texas and still feed ourselves like kings.
 
 >2)  America is full up and we can't let anyone else in - 
 especially if their skin isn't white.
 
 You simply make a case for the idiocy of wearing lables and 
 your knee-jerk need to lable me a right-winger.
 
 I have never heard any of the braindead rightwingers take 
 the two positions you just stated.  They always deny a 
 population problem.
 
 The fact that we could all fit into Texas is not very 
 conforting nor does it address the question of just when 
 will the liberals decide that the bucket is full?
 
 It also seems to me that liberals are the ones with the 
 contradictory positions.  
 
 js

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