The Mice That Roar.

       GIVE ME YOUR TIRED, YOUR POOR, YOUR HUIDDLED MASSES, YEARNING TO BEATH FREE, THE WRETCHED REFUSE OF YOUR TEEMING SHORES. SEND THESE, THE HOMELESS, TEMPEST TOST TO ME, I LIFT MY LAMP BESIDE THE GOLDEN DOOR.
       This is the inscription on the Statue of Liberty that will need to be scrubbed away and made illegible if many Americans have their way. After all, you can't make such a pledge on the one hand and then steal it away on the other hand. Don't misunderstand me, I worry about the possibility of allowing in terrorists and murderers to come into our land. But then there has long been that possibility.
       A lot of folks felt that way about Italians and other ethnic groups in the past. Our lack of courage led us to send Americans of Asian decent to internment camps in WWII in spite of the idea of a free America. Are we Americans so frightful and so unwilling to offer the freedom we enjoy to anyone not like us in every way? Is this, after all, what America is all about?
       Do any of you understand just how stringent our refugee program actually is? You can't just decide this morning to hop a flight to America and expect to be accepted under that refugee program this afternoon. It takes up to two years to be vetted. And if you can't be properly vetted, you don't get in. Stop allowing yourself to be frightened by conservative candidates hoping to squeeze your vote out of you. We Americans need to stand tall about some things. This may be one of them.