The Trump official defended new immigration restrictions by suggesting a rephrasing of Lazarus' Statue of Liberty poem "The New Colossus."
A historian and director of the organization that has the original manuscript of Emma Lazarus’ “The New Colossus,” the iconic poem displayed on the Statue of Liberty, is disappointed but “not surprised” by Trump administration official Ken Cuccinelli suggesting a rewriting of the poem to defend new immigration restrictions.
“Give me your tired and your poor who can stand on their own two feet, and who will not become a public charge,” Cuccinelli said. “It was Emma and ‘The New Colossus’ that gave it its identity as a beacon of immigration,” Polland said. Polland also views the poem as a sign of hope triumphing against fear, observing that when Lazarus wrote the poem, there was deep anti-Semitism, and the country had just established the Chinese Exclusion Act.
The final activity in the curriculum invites students to write their own poems inspired by “The New Colossus” and the Statue of Liberty. The goal, Polland said, is to use Lazarus “as a model of how to encourage students to be civic participants.”
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