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Stephen Miller's Statue of Liberty remarks disturbed many

US news August 3, 2017
The White House advisor appeared to distance himself from the 1883 "huddled masses" poem inscribed at the base of the landmark, chiding reporter Jim Acosta. Miller's remarks shocked many, even as supporters argue the symbolic poem technically isn't US law.
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· 2 Aug 2017

In this exchange with , Stephen Miller just said that the poem on the Statue of Liberty doesn't matter since it was "added later"

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· 2 Aug 2017

Trump aide accuses reporter of bias, battles another over meaning of Statue of Liberty in contentious briefing

White House aide battles reporters over Trump immigration plan
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· 2 Aug 2017

Emma Lazarus's "New Colossus" wasn't added to the Statue of Liberty until 1903, but it was used to raise funds for its pedestal in 1883.

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· 2 Aug 2017
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A Trump spokesman attack a reporter son of Cuban immigrants as a "cosmopolitan" while dismissing the ideals of the Statue of Liberty; /2

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· 2 Aug 2017

Cosmopolitan bias? grew up in Annandale, Virginia. Stephen Miller grew up in L.A.

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Full exchange between Stephen Miller & on Statue of Liberty & immigration. "It reveals your cosmopolitan bias to a shocking degree."
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· 2 Aug 2017

The Statue of Liberty was given to us by French abolitionists to mark the end of slavery. The Lazarus poem was the meaning we assigned her.

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· 2 Aug 2017

The Statue of Liberty was imported. The poem was made in America.

WH's Miller: That poem was not part of the original Statue of Liberty. It was an add-on.
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· 2 Aug 2017

Me, every time Stephen Miller calls the inclusion of Emma Lazarus's poem on the Statue of Liberty "ahistorical."

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· 2 Aug 2017

How did Miller know Statue of Liberty poem was added later? Happens to be popular white nationalist talking point...

Stephen Miller attacks Statue of Liberty poem, echoing popular white nationalist talking point
Online racists celebrated Miller’s performance.
thinkprogress.org
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· 2 Aug 2017
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2. Others who have made the same argument: David Duke (wrote entire chapter about it) Richard Spencer Stormfront

Stephen Miller attacks Statue of Liberty poem, echoing popular white nationalist talking point
Online racists celebrated Miller’s performance.
thinkprogress.org
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· 2 Aug 2017

The poem on the Statute of Liberty isn’t US law. That was a bad way for Acosta to make his argument.

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· 2 Aug 2017

Excerpt from Stephen Miller's New Statue of Liberty Poem: "Give me your white, your white, Your huddled whites yearning to breathe white."

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· 2 Aug 2017

ya just like the Statue of Liberty poem says "give me your tired, your engineers, your good English speakers or piss off and die in a fire"

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Trump: Bill would favor immigrants who "can speak English, financial support themselves...and demonstrate skills" needed in US economy.
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· 2 Aug 2017

About time someone like Stephen Miller had the political genius to take on the very overrated Statue of Liberty, who everybody hates

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· 2 Aug 2017

INT. STEPHEN MILLER'S BEDROOM - MORNING Stephen wakes, turns to a wall photo of the Statue of Liberty. STEPHEN: Today's the day, you bitch.

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· 2 Aug 2017

"Cosmopolitan Bias" is the name of my new Baroque - Dancehall quartet

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· 2 Aug 2017

i feel like this is worst debate with cher horowitz about the statue of liberty

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· 2 Aug 2017

A wise woman once said: "May I please remind you it does not say R.S.V.P. on the Statue of Liberty"

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· 2 Aug 2017

Nevertheless she persisted.

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