Huddled Masses #350 By Hank Silverberg "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!" Emma Lazarus Commentary Those words, written in 1883, adorn the base of the Stature of Liberty in New York harbor and have been a symbol of the United States for over a century and a half. Millions of immigrants received that welcome with joy as they landed with nothing, but went on to build solid, productive lives in America. There have been periods in our history where the contributions of immigrants to the strength of our nation have been ignored, ridiculed or excluded, and it appears we are headed that way again. Up until 1882, there were no immigration laws in the United States. Thousands...