Really? Did you not study your history? This is why I am so frustrated by some of these posts because people are just blindly posting crap they don't know anything about without taking the slightest bit of time to at least researching it a bit...
The simplest of facts (since it's all much too complicated to get into here):
1. The Statue Of Liberty was a gift to the U.S. from France, designed by Frédéric Bartholdi and built in 1886, as a symbol of France's cooperation with the U.S. on the struggle for independence.
2. The sonnet entitled "The New Colossus" inscribed at the base of the statue was written by Jewish-American poet Emma Lazarus in 1883 and inscribed into the statue's base in 1903.
The most quoted piece of the sonnet being:
"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-tost to me,
I lift my lamp beside the golden door!"
I hope that clarifies things a bit. I apologize to all if I sounded insulting in previous posts.