Commentary: Maybe it is time to find a new New Colossus

The idea that people can travel here, leaving behind gangs, unsafe living conditions and poor opportunities to make a new life has long been the American Dream.

The Statue of Liberty is backdropped by a supermoon, Wednesday, Jan. 31, 2018, seen from the Brooklyn borough of New York. The supermoon, which is the final of three consecutive supermoons, also experience lunar eclipse as it set over the horizon, but only a partial eclipse was visible in the East Coast. (AP Photo/Julio Cortez)

Commentary: Maybe it is time to find a new New Colossus

The idea that people can travel here, leaving behind gangs, unsafe living conditions and poor opportunities to make a new life has long been the American Dream.

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