Cuccinelli Triggers the Left by Updating the Lazarus Poem

RUSH: Ken Cuccinelli… You’ve got to hear this, folks, if you haven’t. Ken Cuccinelli is on NPR’s Morning Edition yesterday. Rachel Martin was the co-host. Cuccinelli is the acting director of U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services. They’re talking here about the public charge rule.

Well, the left is outraged by this. “This a direct assault on people,” they claim. “It’s no compassion. It’s mean-spirited, extremist and hard-hearted,” and all of that rot. So Cuccinelli is on NPR yesterday, and remember this question of the Statue of Liberty and an Emma Lazarus poem on there? The left actually thinks that the Statue of Liberty and that inscription is immigration policy!

“Give us your tired. Give us your poor. Give us your thirsty. Give us your hungry. Give us the tired, huddled masses. Let us take them in!” They think that’s immigration policy. It isn’t. Emma Lazarus wrote this. It is irrelevant to immigration policy. But it has been adopted as United States immigration policy, and every brain-dead — and I really mean brain-dead — non-thinking American liberal has adopted it. So Cuccinelli was asked about it yesterday by Rachel Martin.

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