"We'll have to change the inscription on the Statue of Liberty. I propose, 'Give me your educated, your credentialed, your cubicle jockeys yearning to cash checks, the fluent doctors abandoning your teeming shores. Send these, the smart, the trained, to me: I lift my lamp beside the door of privilege.'" Sounds good to me Jon. You are a winner here. These people are my class.

Do I smell a blog troll? Yes, I do.

Here was Lou Reed's suggestion for the new inscription from the song Dirty Boulevard on the New York album from 1989:

"Give me your hungry, your tired your poor I'll piss on 'em
That's what the Statue of Bigotry says
Your poor huddled masses, let's club 'em to death
and get it over with and just dump 'em on the boulevard"

Deacon,

Strange definition of a blog troll. I thought Thurston Howe III's comment was reasonable and on topic.

You apparently missed his sarcasm (or I am missing yours).

People, the “Huddled masses” weren’t welcome here because they were poor, they were “welcomed” because they were cheap labor or potential buyers of western land - advertised by railroads and land speculators. The U.S. needs immigrants now for the same reason it needed them then, to support a growth scheme – and if the growth stops the mythology ends. As long as immigrants keep buying our real-estate we’ll keep letting them in.

And, why shouldn’t any country want to attract non-poor people. Do guilt ridden liberals only need immigrants in order to have a supply of “downtrodden” to cry over?

Keep your immigrants back home: we can no long afford the excess social costs of more citizen wannabes - those who are citizens in name only, who send their cash to families in the nations they consider home (thus draining US internal economy).

We are one of the last 'open door policy' nations on Earth, that does not protect its' domestic workforce from immigrant competition for a fast dwindling set of new jobs - at a time when larger manufacturing and service industry giants are laying off workers, closing down plants, and moving abroad without penalty (without even comment from the press, in most instances).

Search Wikipedia or any other statistics source that lists countries by population; you look at the top 25, and see just how many are industrialized nations (6, if you count Russia).

http://www.infoplease.com/ipa/A0004391.html

There's your answer: those not industrialized are the source of most of the worlds immmigrants, and those that are industrialized are their desired destinations.

Exporting the poor has become lucrative for many Third World nations. Bank on it (Mexico, China and India does).

Many of those immigrating seek higher education (at publically supported institutions). They will emerge with their US-supplied student loans, to compete successfully for jobs by accepting lower wages offered, because of the polyglut of applicants. What does it matter, if the domestic worker population is finally one third college educated, when they must compete openly with recent immigrants? No other country would allow such a policy. Canada, Japan, UK, Europe, even Australia, wouldn't allow it, except in those professions where the domestic workforce is unable to fill demand for specialized labor.

Very few nations have grown as fast in immigrant population, as has the US in the past few decades.

Keep your .." tired, your poor, your landless masses yearning to be free ". We have run out of social infrastructure accommodation for them. The Law of Economies of Scale still functions; we have long moved past the point where the benefits derived from one more unit of population added (by immigration or by birth) add more in productivity than they cost in lifestime social servies required - locally, by state and regional and nationally. Get with the program - every other nation has already figured this one out.

At some point, we must regretfully shut that open door and post a sign that says, "Visitors Welcome (no vacancies)".

Why? Because we, and other Industrialized Nations, have fostered mobility. You don't want to do that, on a crowded planet. You want your population stable. You want to curtail rapid growth - because the cost of infrastructure development to support newcomers - immigrant or emigrant - has far outstripped local capacity to absorb and accomodate them.

And lastly, with climate-induced disaster risks, water/food/clean air resource scarcity, when urban crime and disease control are pressing issues in population dense nations - you must control the internal movement of large numbers of people who suddenly mobilize if living conditions quickly deteriorate.

Where, oh where will accomodate them when there are no more vacancies?

So Dee why do you lay the blame on the poor hoping to make a better life rather on the greedy wealthy who run the big corporations that have been moving all the jobs off-shore? And why do you fail to recognize that the blame for a deteriorating environment and and social structure also falls largely on those same greedy people whose lust for more and more wealth overshadows all else?

The blame for a deteriorating environment is due to the fact that we have too many polluters-people. Reduce the number of people(through normal attrition) and the damage to the environment will be reduced. People need to stay in their own countries and improve those countries and not to be lured by cheap consumer values. It is true, the "big corporations" are like the dope dealers, but the drug addict needs to show some responsibility as well. There needs to be a change in values.

Right on. AMERICA FOR AMERICANS??? Why not AMERICANS FOR AMERICA??? JUST WHO ARE THE AMERICANS??? AMERICANS WHOSE PARENTS, GRANDPARENTS, GREAT THIS AND THAT WERE IMMIGRANTS IN THE FIRST PLACE!!!! WHO IS LEAVING AMERICA??? BIG BUSINESSES FROM AMERICA, THAT'S WHO !!! WHO BENEFITS FROM WALL STREET WORLD-WIDE INVESTMENTS??? TRUE BLUE BORN AMERICANS, THAT'S WHO. Don't put the blame on immigrants, put the blame squarely on those Americans buying foreighn made proudcts under American brnad names. (that includes me) Wake up, Middle Class folks, you are being out-smarted, out-thoughted by the ones with lots more money than you will ever have in your lifetime. Quit making the immigrants the scapegoats!!!! Yep, I'm an American born citizen. I do vote....have you? Which political party you think has mainly encouraged the emigration of our big and little businesses voluntarily AND involuntarily?

Well, I plan on leaving this wonderful and great nation in about 10 years, so let's not stop the immigrants BEFORE I can sell my house at a greatly inflated price. Beyond that, I don't give a rat's ass what the remaining peasants want to do with immigration policy (not that the peasants actually decide anything here, as that’s what our purchased “leaders” are for).

Dale Lovins wrote:
"Which political party you think has mainly encouraged the emigration of our big and little businesses voluntarily AND involuntarily?"

The Mobius Party.
The ONE political party that's held power in the USA for decades and decades.

At 300 MILLION people we have enough poor and tired.

http://www.numbersusa.com/video/?authkey=75e10f5d289cc7c66b50a9c6cabc742f