“Yearning to be free” The media is attacking USCIS. (citizenship, America)

[UrbanQuest]

Many of us have been reading about the media attacks on the USCIS and Trump about new means testing rules. Most often cited is the engraving on the Statue of Liberty “poor and huddled masses yearning to be free”.
Out of curiosity I researched the legal definition of “Freedom”. Here is what I found;

Freedom is the state of being liberated or free. It can also be a political right.

The term freedom in a broader sense includes:

a) the condition of being free of restraints;

b) liberty of a person from slavery, detention, or oppression;

c) political independence and exemption from the arbitrary exercise of authority in the performance of a specific action;

d) a civil liberty, that is a guaranteed protection against interference with the interests and rights held dear and important by large classes of civilized men, or by all the members of a state. Such liberty is coupled with an effectual share in the making and administration of the laws;

e) the ability or capacity to exercise choice or free will;

f) ease or facility of movement;

g) right of enjoying all of the privileges of membership or citizenship;

h) and; a right or the power to engage in certain actions without control or interference.

I can’t speak for everyone, but these people at our border enjoy all of the rights of freedom. If one were to argue the freedom from not having enough resources, then the United States is NOT a free country, therefore cannot provide freedom as a natural right and cannot in good faith offer any immigration benefits to anyone.

You’ll understand what I’m getting at if you check Merriem Webster’s newly minted definition. Corruption is great—

[markjames68]

A poem is not the same as our Constitution. As an immigrant I applaud the sentiment, but you can’t turn it into unbridled policy.

Also, “yearning” -

“a feeling of intense longing for something.”

I want a lot of things, but I don’t expect to (1) get them without earning it and (2) don’t burden others with it.

[dkf747]

Originally Posted by UrbanQuest

Many of us have been reading about the media attacks on the USCIS and Trump about new means testing rules. Most often cited is the engraving on the Statue of Liberty “poor and huddled masses yearning to be free”.
Out of curiosity I researched the legal definition of “Freedom”. Here is what I found;

Freedom is the state of being liberated or free. It can also be a political right.

The term freedom in a broader sense includes:

b) liberty of a person from slavery, detention, or oppression;

Deporting them will accomplish that.

[wac_432]

Something can be legal but still un-American.

My idea of America is a land of the free where able hands, willing to work, arriving on our shores/borders, or being native sons have the equal opportunity to build our nation and prosper.

I approve of means-testing applicants for LPR status, so long as it is not used as a un-American protectionist tool.