The poem has again been catapulted into a heated debate on immigration. "Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free." These iconic words from "The New Colossus ...

The young Black woman wanted her grandmother to see her in the sanctuary and “to run to her Hershey-­sweet brown arms” and receive a “coconut rabbit cake on a jelly-bean platter; every year under the ...

Trump administration officials have been challenged before about the Statue of Liberty poem after announcing immigration restrictions. In August 2017, senior advisor Stephen Miller was asked about ...

A top Trump immigration official offered an edit to the iconic poem engraved on the Statue of Liberty in the wake of the Administration’s newly announced plan making it tougher for some ...

Ying Diao Chinese poetry carved on the wall of the Angel Island Immigration Station in the San Francisco Bay. (Text from Island: Poetry and History of Chinese Immigrants on Angel Island ...

The poem that you’re referring to was added ... which sits in the New York Harbor and was visible on the path to the immigration checkpoint at Ellis Island, was a gift from France to the US.

The poem was engraved onto a plaque placed on the pedestal in 1903 — nearly two decades after the statue was unveiled — and that the monument wasn’t always associated with immigration.

"Give me your tired and your poor who can stand on their own two feet and who will not become a public charge," Ken Cuccinelli, the acting director of U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services ...

He also suggested that the poem should be amended to reflect that ... Ken Cuccinelli has sparked outrage over his comments about immigration. Asked about his comments on NPR, President Donald ...