Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free,
The wretched refuse of your teeming shore.
Send these, the homeless, tempest-tossed to me,
I lift my lamp beside the golden door!”
That was spoken in 1883, wen the US population was 50 Million. 15% of what it is now.
US needs to get rid of the Statue of Liberty, a relic long past its time, and now harmful to America,
Not only that, but if you look closely you can see Elizabeth Warren's mother protesting all those people coming to steal her tribal lands.
By VI-AN NGUYEN @vian_nguyen

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More than 12 million immigrants entered the U.S. through the Ellis Island gateway from 1892 to 1954, with its majestic neighbor, the Statue of Liberty, welcoming them home. (Find out if your family came through Ellis Island by
searching the passenger list.)
In honor of the Fourth of July,
Parade asked
Elizabeth Mitchell, author of the book
Liberty’s Torch, an account of the Statue of Liberty’s bumpy history and the life of her creator, Frédéric Auguste Bartholdi, to reveal some little-known facts about America’s most famous monument.

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We take the iconic Statue of Liberty for granted—it’s the perfect backdrop for celebrations of American patriotism. But few people know the fascinating story of how she came to be and how one quirky visionary,
Frédéric Auguste Bartholdi, battled naysayers, engineering impossibilities and a raging storm during transport to put the Lady on her feet in New York harbor.
My book,
Liberty’s Torch: The Great Adventure to Build the Statue of Liberty, tells the improbable journey of the statue from one artist’s whimsical inspiration to the feverish labors of supporters from
Gustave Eiffel to
Mark Twain to the penny donors of old New York tenements.
Here are just 10 of the little-known facts about America’s colossus:
1. The Statue of Liberty was not a gift from France to America.
We have all heard the shorthand that implies that the statue was exchanged government to government. In fact, Frédéric Auguste Bartholdi, a mid-career statue maker, decided to pitch a country he had never visited before on his vision to build a massive lighthouse in the shape of a woman. In his diaries and letters, he described his journey to all corners of America, from Niagara Falls to Washington, D.C., from Chicago to Los Angeles, to explore this exotic land and drum up support.
When no significant government funding emerged, he contrived every possible fundraising strategy himself. He put on spectacles of wonder in Paris, charged visitors admission to watch the statue’s construction in a dusty workshop, sold souvenirs, and petitioned the French government to let him run a national lottery.
In the end it was
Joseph Pulitzer, the American newspaper magnate, who helped him finish the job by printing the names of every person who donated even a penny to the cause. This strategy rapidly boosted the circulation of Pulitzer’s newspaper when readers bought a copy simply to see their names in the paper—a brilliant marketing strategy.

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The Statue of Liberty was
not a gift from France to America. The Statue was originally designed for the Suez Canal in Egypt. Bartholdi did not craft the basic design of Liberty specifically for America. The Egypt deal fell through, so Bartholdi decided to adventure to America to pitch his colossus. The statue was originally supposed to be a lighthouse. It has served its purpose and needs to be put rest. No longer apply to us and never did.