Becoming+American

= // Becoming American // =

=**// Not like the brazen giant of Greek fame, //**= =**// With conquering limbs astride from land to land; //**= =**// Here at our sea-washed, sunset gates shall stand //**= =**// A mighty woman with a torch, whose flame //**= =**// Is the imprisoned lightning, and her name //**= =**// Mother of Exiles. From her beacon-hand //**= =**// Glows world-wide welcome; her mild eyes command //**= =**// The air-bridged harbor that twin cities frame. //**= =**// "Keep ancient lands, your storied pomp!" cries she //**= =**// With silent lips. "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, //**= =**// I lift my lamp beside the golden door!" //**= =**// By Emma Lazarus //**= = = =// __Immigration: The Issues__ //= = media type="custom" key="12111710" = = media type="custom" key="12111716" = = media type="custom" key="12111742" = = media type="custom" key="12111806" = = media type="custom" key="12111812" = = = = __Alabama Immigration Law__ = = media type="custom" key="12111552" = =media type="custom" key="12111580"= =media type="custom" key="12111652"= =media type="custom" key="12111766"= =[|Radio Story: "For one Ala. farmer, workers are still scarce"] __Migrant Workers__ =
 * // The New Colossus //**

=[|NPR article on Migrant Workers]= =[|Radio Story about unions recruiting immigrant workers] [|Radio story about Immigrant wage theft]= ==[|"Migrant Workers for the Future, Sing to Remember"] [|Radio Story about Immigrants being used by drug cartels]== = = = =

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