Masha Gessen Schools You Haters on the True Meaning of the Zeroth Amendment
09/07/2017
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From the New York Times:

Immigrants Shouldn’t Have to Be ‘Talented’ to Be Welcome

Masha Gessen SEPT. 6, 2017

… As long as politicians consider it necessary to qualify the victims as “hardworking” or “talented,” they fail to stand up to the administration’s fundamentally hateful immigration agenda.

… It’s not immigrants’ economic contribution that makes America proud; it’s its adherence to the words inscribed inside the base of the Statue of Liberty: “Give me your tired, your poor/your huddled masses yearning to breathe free” — from the Emma Lazarus poem that the White House adviser Stephen Miller waved away last month during a news conference on immigration reform.

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