American Immigration Laws
Bouncers at the Border
Casey Abay
\"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!\" These are the words inscribed at the base of the Statue of Liberty, which has become the American icon for those who wish to make the United Stated their
home. How true do these words hold relative to US immigration polocies?
The US is a Nation of Immigrants. Since this its beginnings, immigration has played a vital part in this countries development. People from all parts of the world, from different ethinic, political, religious, and cultrual backgrounds populate this mass of land east of the Pacific and west of the Atlantic. This compilation of people is often described with metaphors such as \"melting pot\" or \"cultural mosaic.\" It is this diversity......
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