“Give me your tired, your poor / Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free”

Those famous lines, part of a poem by Emma Lazarus, are inscribed on the base of the Statue of Liberty at the entrance of New York Harbour. The statue is traditionally regarded as an icon of freedom and a symbol of welcome to immigrants arriving by sea...

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