Recently I wondered what the Statue of Liberty would look like if Liberals redesigned it, and later realized New York Harbor is not listed as a port of entry for legal immigration into the United States.

However, with over 1,800,000 illegal aliens expected to cross Mexico’s border with the United States during 2021 alone I wondered how the poem at the base of the Statue of Liberty – called “The New Colossus“, written by Emma Lazarus 1883 and added to the Statue in 1903 – might be modified to reflect America’s most popular illegal port of entry:

The New(er) Colossus

Not like the brazen giant of Greek fame,
With conquering limbs astride from land to land;
Here at our sea-washed desolate, sunset gates shall stand
A mighty woman birthing person with a torch, whose flame intermittently solar-powered light
Is the imprisoned lightning, and her ve name
Mother Non-prostate Owner of Exiles Undocumented Immigrants. From her ve beacon-hand
Glows world-wide welcome; her ve mild eyes command
The air-bridged harbor that twin cities frame.
“Keep, ancient lands law-abiding Conservatives, your storied pomp!” cries she ve
With silent lips. “Give me your tired unskilled, your poor,
Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free displace & burden legal American Citizens,
The wretched refuse criminals & infected of your teeming shore.
Send these, the homeless opportunistic, tempest-tost future Democrat voters to me,
I lift my lamp beside the golden free welfare’s door!”

Emma Lazarus Liberal Democrats
November 2, 1883 January 20, 2021

Now all’s we need do is figure out what the statue at the US-Mexico Border should look like: In perhaps a twist of irony, Rep. José Serrano (D-N.Y.), who represented New York’s South Bronx in 2017, proposed building  another Statue of Liberty.

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