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Residents of Murrieta, California succeeded in turning away three bus-loads of immigration detainees from being processed at the border patrol station in the Southern California city with shouts of “Go home,” while waving American flags in a disgraceful display of intolerance and xenophobia only days before the celebration of one of the great celebrations of American liberty and ideals: the 4th of July. There is a statue in New York harbor of a lady with a torch, lighting the way toward what the poet, Emma Lazarus called, a “world-wide welcome,” and a “golden door.” It reads, "Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free, the wretched refuse of your teeming shore. Send these, the homeless, tempest-tost to me.” Maybe it’s time to tear down this statue, or perhaps change the poet’s lines to reflect the new American dream to the words of one of Murrieta’s councilman, Rick Gibbs -- “We do not have the facilities to feed and clothe people for an extended stay.” Shame on the people of Murrieta who participated in this travesty, shame on you.



 

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