A Trump immigration official suggested that Lady Liberty didn't want tired, poor, huddled masses — just working class Europeans. This history of America's most iconic statue proves otherwise.
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00:00It's important that we establish that we are a country that has open arms and not closed borders for people.
00:07It's important because we let people know why America is what it is.
00:12It's about an ideal, and that ideal is freedom for everybody.
00:30This statue, given by France to the great American people,
00:46can be the statue of all those who, all over the world, prefer freedom to dictatorship.
01:00This statue, given by France to the great American people,
01:07can be the statue of all those who, all over the world, prefer freedom to dictatorship.
01:15This statue, given by France to the great American people,
01:23can be the statue of all those who, all over the world, prefer freedom to dictatorship.
01:39They came from famine in search of food.
01:43They came from poverty in search of opportunity.
01:48They were young, they were old, they were Jewish, they were Catholic, they were educated, they were not.
01:55But for all their differences, each one of them came seeking one thing.
02:04They were all in search of the dream, the American dream.
02:18Today, USCIS, the agency I head as part of the Department of Homeland Security,
02:46has issued a rule that encourages and ensures self-reliance and self-sufficiency
02:53for those seeking to come to or to stay in the United States.
03:07It stands, just look at it, that's what it stands for.
03:10We take everyone, we take our poor, we take the world.
03:13We don't, all of a sudden, change that just because of Donald Trump.