'Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses.' These iconic words from the 1883 poem 'The New Colossus' have again been catapulted into a heated political debate. How the Statue of Liberty became a symbol of immigration:
These iconic words from"The New Colossus" — the 1883 poem written by American Emma Lazarus are etched in bronze and mounted on the Statue of Liberty's pedestal — and have again been catapulted into a heated political debate on immigration.
According to Alan Kraut, a professor of history at American University, language restricting immigration for those likely to become a public charge appeared in U.S. legislation as early as 1891, and throughout its history, the United States has courted immigrants but simultaneously"repelled them and was very not welcoming to [them] when they arrived."
"Initially, immigration was not one of the things that inspired the Statue of Liberty for Laboulaye or Bartholdi but there was a transformation and Lazarus's poem is part of that transformation," Kraut, who chairs the History Advisory Committee of the Statue of Liberty-Ellis Island, said in a phone call with ABC.
Lazarus died of illness in 1887 — one year after the Statue of Liberty was dedicated by President Grover Cleveland in October 1886.
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