By emma lazarus that says give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free as the embodiment of the way we think about this country and immigration. As you look across the history of this nation, does it track with the reality of how we have treated immigrants . Dr. Kraut the history of immigration in the u. S. Doesnt track at all with emma lazaruss wonderful quotation. It has been a lovehate relationship. In the 19th century, there was a popular immigrant saying, america beckons but americans repel. In many ways that much more how ourly embodies relationship with immigration has been in the United States. One of the great ironies is that emma lazarus wrote the poem in 1883, and one year before, in 1882, the u. S. Passed the chinese exclusion law, excluding chinese laborers from coming to the United States. We would pass in the years after that increasingly restrictive legislation. So we want immigrants to come. We beckon them with opportunity. We beckon them
The 10 most talked about news stories of the year but 1st homelessness in the usa how our tax dollars are literally paying to dispose of the most vulnerable americans. Cook in washington this is the big picture on our t. V. America. Thousands of homeless families who used to live in new york city shelters have moved elsewhere their move funded by a new York City Program called sotto meaning special one time assistance the soda Program Provides one years full rent up front to move within new york city to other new york state county is or to another state or puerto rico or washington d. C. See so to it can be accessed by working individuals and families and those who receive s. S. I. S. S. D. Etc as long as there is the future ability to make rent payments based on the households rent not exceeding 50 percent of the households income but what if they cant pay their own rent after that 1st year the mayor of nearby newark new jersey says the soto program is already failing those so 2. 00 m
Childrens lives. To talk about it lately because of all the impeachment ive seen many children die making this journey. Theres no downside in taking madness, but its an issue that affects so many people in america and around the world, economically, socially, culturally in terms of how our millions of dollars out of cartel hands. Communities are doing, that thats what infuriates me. Issue is immigration and these people who sit there in their ivory tower, they want to point their finger and tonight we have a very special guest to talk about all of that who probably knows more about u. S. Immigration policy vilify my president whos done and just about anyone else on more than any president i work the planet. Former acting director of the u. S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement department and Fox News Contributor tom herman. For and i respect every president i work for because he is with me for the whole hour. This is all we will be talking youre the president of the United States. Abo
Hispanic caucus. I had a chance to attend the oral arguments over the future and state of daca and whether the Supreme Court will allow it to stand. All of us do they stand in solidarity and in support of the dreamers and recipients. They are as american as any single one of us. And despite the attempts to slander them to speak ill about who they are and what they represent a. They are able to come out of the shadows and they now feel the fear of deportation looming but then out in strong force numbers of the Business Community cannot speak the truth about how valuable our dreamers onto this country. They passed an act. The fact is all of us are anxious to see what the Supreme Court says. In the house of representatives and under the Speaker Pelosi we are also not waiting for the Supreme Court. And where they belong with all of us. Unfortunately right now it is buried in the desk of Mitch Mcconnell and we are asking the Senate Majority leader to take action to do right by these folks h
Track with the reality of how we have treated immigrants . Dr. Kraut the history of immigration in the u. S. Doesnt track at all with emma lazaruss wonderful quotation. It has been a lovehate relationship. In the 19th century, there was a popular immigrant saying, america beckons but americans repel. That is more accurate as to how our relationship with immigration has been in the United States. A great irony is that emma lazarus wrote the poem in 1883, and one year before, in 1882, the u. S. Passed the chinese exclusion law, excluding chinese laborers from coming to the u. S. In the years after that, increasingly restrictive legislation was passed. We want immigrants to calm, we beckon them with opportunity to take jobs as skilled, semiskilled, unskilled labor to build our country, construct our economy, but after they get here, frequently they are the object of scorn, they are discriminated against, they suffer some of the worst acts of prejudice imaginable. This is a very complicate