‘Give me your tired, your poor’: The story of poet and refugee advocate Emma Lazarus

This year in 1883, Amazard Road, a young, first-class New York poet, descendants of Jewish immigrants, was asked for help.

Fundraising activities are in progress to hold the Statue of Liberty, an expensive gift from France, and many Americans are particularly insensitive to these gifts. French

Politicians and speakers of July 4 say they want to quote Aymaratha about the statue of liberty. "And as the President Cardin did a few days ago, America is a proud immigrant country." Well, the history of immigrants here obscures the shadow of self-proclaimed pride. Generations of the American border are open to new immigrants, but this is not usually due to a general attitude. America in the colonial period was a frontier society. That diversity at the time - Britain, Scotland, France, the Netherlands and even Jews in the Caribbean - were diverse. But by the early nineteenth century the state increasingly defined "standard" Americans as British Protestants. Needless to say, Africans and Indians are not talking at all.

There are some phrases related to the Statue of Liberty, but the most obvious thing is that "I want to be exhausted, I want to breathe freely to the poor, to the densely populated people." This sentence comes from Emma Lazarus' sonnet. The new Colossus is also known as the Statue of Liberty. This statue is a gift from France, represents freedom and is a welcoming lighthouse for foreign immigrants. The United States welcomes immigrants who are known as a country of prosperity and opportunity and seeking a better life. That is what attracts people. However, recently, the words inscribed on the plaque at the bottom of the statue do not apply to Syrian refugees.

"Imagine your depletion, your poor / your compact crowd is eager to breathe freely," emerald of the poet Imagining the Statue of Liberty on the world famous Sonnet "New Colossus" It was. From 1880 to 1920, more than 20 million immigrants came to America to seek freedom and new opportunities. America welcomes these new arrivals, whether to escape from religious persecution (Eastern European Jewish), starvation and poverty (Italy), or civil war or revolution (Armenia and Mexico). Strict restrictions on laws such as China exclusion law. This relatively open policy ends when the First World War broke out and new laws will be introduced in the 1920s to limit immigration.