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| Ellis Island arrivals, 1903, are dressed in the best they had as a show of respect to their new country. Teen wearing a tie and carrying family belongings clutches the hand of his wary-eyed sister. |
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.”
--"The New Colossus,” a poem by Emma Lazarus inscribed on the Statue of Liberty, New York Harbor.
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Migrants trying to enter the U.S. from Mexico approach the site where workers are assembling large buoys to be used as a border barrier along the banks of the Rio Grande in Eagle Pass, Texas, Tuesday, July 11, 2023.
--Associated Press photo by Eric Gay |
Posted with every ounce of affection I possess to honor the memory of my family's migrant forebearers from Eastern Europe and Mexico.
Happy Birthday, Mom.
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