A Symbol of Freedom

"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-tossed to me.
I lift my lamp beside the golden door."

So reads the inscription on the statue. Is America still a place where people are welcome, no matter how wretched, tired, and poor? I pray the gracious freedom on which our nation was founded might again be a shining light to the world.