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A Worldwide Welcome

The Statue of Liberty in New York Harbor, a gift from the French Government, was an inspiring view for immigrants arriving by ship.

Generations of American schoolchildren learned by heart the lines by Emma Lazarus inscribed on the base of the Statue of Liberty— thankful for the spirit of welcome that first inspired them: 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!

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