The Immigrant: The Stranger At Our Gate

Emigrant: "Can I come in?"

Uncle Sam: "I 'spose you can; there's no law to keep you out."

The Ram's Horn

What do you think this cartoon is showing? Where do you think the immigrant is from? What symbols do you see in this cartoon? Compare it to the poem on the Statue of Liberty we read yesterday.

The Statue of Liberty 

  

Library of Congress 

Not like the brazen giant of Greek fame,

With conquering limbs astride from land to land;

Here at our sea-washed, sunset gates shall stand

A mightywoman with a torch, whose flame

Is the imprisoned lightning, and her name

Mother of Exiles. From her beacon-hand

Glows world-wide welcome; her mild eyes command

The air-bridged harbor that twin cities frame.

"Keep, ancient lands, your storied pomp!" cries she

With silent lips. "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!"

What is the United States'  position concerning immigration as depicted in Lazarus's poem? Use evidence from the poem to support your answer.

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