Our resident humanities scholar Clay Jenkinson suggests that the poem best known for its placement at the base of the Statue of Liberty may have created a case of false advertising to migrants around the world. America’s incoherent immigration policy is caught between the competing instincts of “give me … your huddled masses” and “build that wall.”

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