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Stop lying.
when the US is in trillions of $$ in debt. we cant give anything away. NO CREDIT CARDS HERE.
This is disgusting and makes my heart break. America, I’m begging....please resist! VoteBlueToEndThisNightmare
Stupid and cartoonishly evil
A poem is not law. Only Congress can legislate.
Twisted. A good word to describe the entire regime.
Totally! It is the 21st Century, not 1890!
Anyone look at the policies back then on how many people got denied entry for sickness.
I’m disappointed that the NPR reporter didn’t immediately respond to Cuccinelli intentionally misquoting what is written on the Statue of Liberty plaque.
The lefts incessantly shovels this er ‘stuff’.. what they dont say is a million people legally immigrate into the US each year. Yes a million! I for one think that is more than sufficient. Is it too much to demand people follow our laws? They are there for a reason.
Since when is a poem penned in 1883 US Immigration Policy? IT'S A FUCKING POEM ON A STATUE. What's next, Dr. Seuss college admissions?
Cuccinelli? Hmmmm. That doesn’t sound native american at all.
I’m embarrassed he is from Virginia but thankfully he is a Fed now, not a representative of our state.
OUR PUBLICLY FUNDED ultra-leftist-OCCUPIED npr selling us bs again? It's same debunked 'hands up don't shoot' bs, same debunked 'very fine people' bs, same debunked 'Russian Collusion' bs. USCISCuccinelli did not recite a new poem. He used reporter's poem to respond to his Q.
New apartheid policy 😡
CuccioliIsARacist
Interesting that NPR thinks this is a “twisting” of immigration policy of days long past. But what welfare/entitlements did immigrants receive upon arrival in 1875 when the statue was erected?
Can we just put him in a homeless shelter for a few days?
Why aren’t their employers paying a living wage?
Donald Drumpf Trump is a racist. He has a racist vision for our country. RacistTrump
Why not stop subsidizing all people and businesses then
Remember the very fine” people who are upset about messing w/history in regards to the confederate flag/Robert E Lee etc.... This should be a concern to ALL Americans.
Legitimately thought this was an onion article for a second there
A garbage human for garbage humans.
He knows ICE raids typically occur at workplaces, right?
You touch that lady and I will have you arrested for assault of our declaration of independence.
Twisting? Distorting them beyond recognition is more like it.
We're Germany in 1930.
So literally the opposite of the original statement of values.
Last paragraph of search when Lady 🗽 was dedicated. This isn't new.
This could be an Onion article...
Yes, there was no welfare state
We weren’t the welfare state we are today when the original words were first uttered.
Hey Chief
Last I recall was when people came over this way, they worked really hard, made a living and enjoyed their newfound freedom NOT being overcome by the government nor taking welfare.
Who hates the Statue of Liberty? That’s a bit much for an American.
Pathetic. Only a racist could bastardise the Statue Of Liberty.
Just f$*k you immigration chief. It’s that simple.
So, basically do not give us your tied and poor.
Uh I think ask the people rounded up last week were AT WORK...
What's wrong with that? Would you prefer all the tubercular, leperus immigrants of the world be moved to your city?
ACTING Director. One of many in the Clown Car Cabinet of King Don. No nominating process, no (rubber stamp) Senate confirmation. Screw the Constitution, eh? ConAmerica
No wonder you never made Governor
They can come. Legally.
NPR cat nip
Shameful
Give me a break.....
AMERICA IS TIRED OF YOU weak minded racist hired by trump for those very attributes
Reading this today actually ruined my day
The American citizens who need these benefits deserve them first not illegals!
Disgusting and un-American.
RESIGN
'Give me your supermodels, your .... No, I guess just the supermodels.'
F him to hell along with Dump.
😣🤢
Ancestry can you find the records of Cuccinelli's family entering the U.S.?
Please do the genealogy research on when his people came here
He’s lost so many elections in Virginia that he needs to go all out Trumpian to make a national show of himself. He’s a disgrace.
As immigrant I can tell you that this is always the case nothing new But you American have no clue as usual
Un-American. And has this guy ever read the Bible?
Yaaaaaa! finally someone is trying to do something. So fed up with supporting these freeloaders in Az while r own homeless live on the streets, Yuma Az built 15 mil$ air/condit tent city. 60 % more seniors r living in cars/homelessin Az. TAKE CARE OF OUR POOR US CITIZENS FIRST!
This is shocking! Finally Stephen Miller got his way to stop legal immigration- I just don’t understand how a despicable person like Miller rose to have so much power to change what America has always stood for.
We demand his resignation. CongressDoYourJob
Can we get rid of all the white families who abuse the public assistance programs and then teach their children to do the same? Can we deport them? Can we deport all those middle aged white males who fake a work injury to get workers comp and subsequently disability?
Idiot
As unAmercan as it gets. FascistGOP
Despicable
😮 That is obscene. It's like shame has taken a rocketship to a galaxy far, far away,
Gpa Drumpf, sneaks to America & makes money off of poor hard workers by serving lunches & whores, marries & moves to NY. Goes back to homeland & expelled for avoiding military svc. No where to go so back to America w/8 mos preg wife who births an anchor baby. Why not France or...
looks like Trump isn't the only liar. smh
About time. Thousands of recipients getting welfare / food stamps / SSI / Medicaid are frauds. They DO NOT declare their foreign accounts , properties , movable & immovable assets. Even work off the records getting thousands of dollars CASH so they continue as “ poor”
France should take it back.
Amen!
Insert here scene from “The Man in the High Castle” where Nazi aircraft ceremoniously crash rockets into the base of the Statue of Liberty, which tumbles amid the fascist pageantry of a nighttime fireworks display.
melania trump got the “Einstein visa”.... qualifications you ask? •“You must be able to demonstrate extraordinary ability in the sciences, arts, education, business, or athletics through sustained national or international acclaim” 🤔
When can we do something about Corporate welfare?
I keep see this, and thinking of scenes from The Man in the High Castle.
AllResistNews Cuccinelli must visit Ellis Island (next to the Statue of Liberty) to be reminded that his Italian ancestors were not welcomed! RememberHistory
Well done, Ken Cuccinelli! Emma Lazarus is not an immigration policy maker.
Well when you let tax cut go....you need to start conserving somewhere?
Now I know why I never liked this guy!!
Many, many policies will have to be reversed once this admin loses in 2020.
Asxhole
acting Director, huh? Well, he's acting like a piece of shit, that's for sure.
France probably wants their statue back at this point.
Lord, have mercy.
Let him stand on his own two feet in another country!
Emma's word were a POEM, not a constitutional right 4 anyone who wants 2 swim the Rio Grande, or crawl under the fence. Immigrants were REQUIRED 2 APPLY for citizenship when America was a young country. They weren't handed FREE SUPPORT 4 LIFE like these Mexicans r demanding.
Shame on these people destroying what’s truly great about this country.
You're pointing your finger at my beloved grandparents. SHAME ON YOU!
Give me-your trump grand daddy avoiding military service and lying on entry documents, also trump mum entering so poor then lying, let enter the wife who was working illegally in porn, also trump’s children all of chain migration, all selfish trumps-all now on America’s shores.
If the tired and poor could stand on their own 2 feet. They wouldn’t be tired and poor!!! 🤦🏻♀️
Meanwhile, ICE is raiding food plants where immigrants are WORKING. The Trump administration evidently doesn’t want any immigrants, whether they are working or not working.
This dude is not an American
AllResistNews That what RacistTrump's admin is doing - making their own rules. F*k laws - it's RacistRapistTrump way or no way! They're torching the USA before they go down!!!
How many us born citizens that work 40 hours a week get some form of assistance?
Alternate headline: trash human enforces policies in line with those who are fearful of the browning of America
Sad, outrageous, painful, antithetical to American values. Let’s hope Trump doesn’t decide to remove or deface Lady Liberty’s plaque, as he has dishonored her message.
Thanks for amplifying fascist propaganda.
I can’t remember, do we pay his salary for his opinions? Is that part of the job?
TrumpAdministration
Gross.
Reminds me of Lou Reed's Dirty Boulevard: '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.' StatueOfLiberty
Disgusting
Ah, Mr Cuccinelli...have a Be Worst medal...maybe 2 for such an ignorant remark...🏅🏅
How come you guys never call out that pulling oneself up by the bootstraps is impossible. That's the point of the saying.
Eff the effing Trump administration. Acting and otherwise. Grifters and cons.
This is shows very poor taste.
What most other countries do to protect citizens...you know, that is the people who actually pay for everything!
Sounds like what our immigration policy was until 20 years ago.
Cuccinelli. Sounds Italian. Nice, real nice
disturbing
680 undocumented workers arrested in record-setting immigration sweep on the first day of school - Immigrants WORK! their a$$ off! They don't come here to GET FREE BENEFITS! This is some BS
Perfect. My family came as indentured servants and worked on a farm for two years to pay their passage, and support themselves.
I love it
Sure his ancestors were just living it up in Europe in a castle with big money. Then one day said 'you know what? We have it too good here. Let's go America'. Sure though they came here just like anyone else; poor and looking for a better life. So one day he could be a jerk.
🤦🏾♂️
It's a great idea. Long overdue. Anybody who thinks we should let a bunch of poor, uneducated third world peasants on a path to citizenship is either and idiot or anti-American
In the late 1800s people who couldn't stand on their own two feet would have died on the long trip to America and wouldn't have received any government assistance once they made it here.
You know this used to be policy. You had to have a sponsor and a job waiting before you would be admitted.
I'm an American. But I'm not as proud an American as I used to be. This administration is deplorable
hmm like his and other neighbors, community parents, grandparents etc. I'm appalled how US has become a nation of 'me'
No, that was not the idea. Your idea maybe, and Trump's/Miller's. Not America's. Shame on all of you.
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