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Go to W.W. dot the Benjamin Dixon show.com to register for our blog and join the Progressive Army. Would you also agree that Emma Lazarus's words etched on the Statue of Liberty,

give me your tired, your poor are also part of the American ethos?

They certainly are.

Give me your tired and your poor who can stand on their own two feet and who will not become

a public charge.

That plaque was put on the statute of liberty at almost the same time as the first public

charge law was passed.

Very interesting timing.

Although you mentioned the American dream is built on this idea that this is a place where you can come and build a life.

That was acting director of U.S. citizenship and and immigration services Ken Kucinelli,

revising the point by Emma Lazarus that's etched on the side of the Statue of Liberty.

Now you heard him, you heard him with his own voice, say this revised poem with very little prompting from NPR.

You heard it. Now I want you to see exactly how much full of shit and how utterly disingenuous and how

steadfastly intent on not engaging in good faith Donald Trump

his administration and conservatives in general art because you just heard the

clip with the

prompting now listen to his reply to Aaron Burnett on CNN later that

let me play you this morning when you quoted the Emma Lazarus poem on the statue of Liberty.

Oh, I wasn't quoting it. I was answering a question.

Right, okay, I'm sorry, but you were giving your version of what you thought the poem should say, right?

No, no, I was not.

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